Short scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle: insights from PcP-P and ScS-S data

Details Short scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle: insights from PcP-P and ScS-S data Short scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle: insights from PcP-P and ScS-S data

Jul 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002e%26psl.201...57t&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 201, Issue 1, p. 57-68.

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We compare lateral variations at the base of the mantle as inferred from a global dataset of PcP-P travel time residuals, measured on broadband records, and existing P and S tomographic velocity models, as well as ScS-S travel time data in some selected regions. In many regions, the PcP-P dataset implies short scale lateral variations that are not resolved by global tomographic models, except under eastern Eurasia, where data and models describe a broad region of fast velocity anomalies across which variations appear to be of thermal origin. In other regions, such as central America and southeastern Africa, correlated short scale lateral variations (several hundred kilometers) are observed in PcP and ScS, implying large but not excessive values for the ratio R=∂lnVs/∂lnVp (~2.5). On the other hand, in at least two instances, in the heart of the African Plume and on the edge of the Pacific Plume, variations in P and S velocities appear to be incompatible, implying strong lateral gradients across compositionally different domains, possibly also involving topography on the core-mantle boundary. One should be cautious in estimating R at the base of the mantle from global datasets, as different smoothing and sampling of P and S datasets may result in strong biases and meaningless results.

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