Azimuthal seismic anisotropy constrains net rotation of the lithosphere

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Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3505303b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 5, CiteID L05303

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Geophysics

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Marine Geology And Geophysics: Plate Tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158), Tectonophysics: Dynamics: Convection Currents, And Mantle Plumes, Tectonophysics: Hotspots, Large Igneous Provinces, And Flood Basalt Volcanism, Tectonophysics: Rheology: General (1236, 8032), Seismology: Surface Waves And Free Oscillations

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Net rotation (NR) of the lithosphere is found in hot spot reference frames, important for tectonics and plume models, but difficult to constrain. Using mantle flow and crystallographic texture modeling, I show that NRs lead to mantle shearing which is recorded in azimuthal seismic anisotropy. The NR amplitude in some hot spot models is so large that it degrades the model fit to anisotropy significantly. Smaller NRs, such as predicted by flow models with stiff continental keels, are consistent with seismology, however.

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