Anisotropy of heterogeneity scale lengths in the lower mantle from PKIKP precursors

Details Anisotropy of heterogeneity scale lengths in the lower mantle from PKIKP precursors Anisotropy of heterogeneity scale lengths in the lower mantle from PKIKP precursors

Feb 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999geoji.136..373c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 136, Issue 2, pp. 373-384.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

17

Core, Antle Boundary, Mantle Heterogeneity, Scattering

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The anisotropy of heterogeneity scale lengths in the lower mantle is investigated by modelling its effect on the high-frequency precursors of PKIKP scattered by the heterogeneities. Although models having either an isotropic or an anisotropic distribution of scale lengths can fit the observed coda shapes of short-period precursors, the frequency content of broad-band PKIKP precursors favours a dominantly isotropic distribution of scale lengths. Precursor coda shapes are consistent with 1 per cent fluctuations in P velocity in the wavenumber band 0.05-0.5 km^-1 extending to 1000 km above the core-mantle boundary, and with a D'' region open to circulation throughout the lower mantle. The level of excitation of PKIKP precursors observed in the frequency band 0.02-2 Hz requires a power spectrum of heterogeneity that is nearly white or slowly increasing with wavenumber. Anisotropy of scale lengths may exist in a D'' layer having larger horizontal than vertical scale lengths and produce little or no detectable effects on PKIKP precursors for P-velocity perturbations as high as 3 per cent when averaged over a vertical scale of several kilometres, and much higher when averaged over scales of hundreds of metres or less.

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