Anisotropy in the center of the inner core

Details Anisotropy in the center of the inner core Anisotropy in the center of the inner core

Aug 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.1671v&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 16, p. 1671-1674

Physics

46

Anisotropy, Broadband, Earth Axis, Seismic Waves, Seismograms, Transit Time, Wave Propagation, Ground Stations, Mathematical Models, Seismology, Waveforms

Scientific paper

We have assembled a collection of PKP data from broadband records of the Geoscope network. This collection is unique because, for the first time, it includes polar paths at epicentral distances between 172 deg and 177 deg, for which PKP(sub DF) samples the central part of the inner core. After Hilbert transforming the DF branch, the waveforms of PKP(sub AB) and PKP(sub DF) usually become very similar, and we measure differential travel times with an accuracy of a fraction of a second. The differential (AB-DF) times for equatorial paths are close to those predicted by the Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM), whereas for the polar paths, they are larger by 3 to 6 sec. Absolute DF times confirm that the effect is primarily in the inner core. These observations are compatible with a model of cylindrical anisotropy in the inner core with the axis of symmetry aligned with the Earth's spin axis and an amplitude of 3.5%. They require that the anisotropy extend to the central part of the inner core, confirming extrapolations made by Creager (1992) and ruling out models where anisotropy is confined to the outer 300 km of the inner core (Tromp, 1993).

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