Depth variations of the 410 and 520 km-discontinuities beneath Asia and the Pacific from PP precursors

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Jun 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3612307s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 12, CiteID L12307

Physics

Seismology: Body Waves, Seismology: Mantle (1212, 1213, 8124), Mineralogy And Petrology: Mantle Processes (1038), Tectonophysics: Earth'S Interior: Composition And State (1212, 7207, 7208, 8105)

Scientific paper

We investigate depth variations of the 410 and 520 km-discontinuities beneath Asia and the Pacific which serve as examples for a continental and an oceanic region, respectively. The depths are derived from travel-time differences between the PP-phase and its precursors that are reflected at the discontinuities. After accounting for differences in average crustal thickness, we find that the depth of the ‘410’ is rather uniform but larger than expected beneath both regions with a value of approximately 418 km. Signals from the ‘520’ are slightly less pronounced. However, while the average depth of the ‘520’ beneath Asia is about 519 km, we obtain a value of about 531.5 km for the Pacific. Here, the depression of the discontinuities can be explained in view of thermal anomalies in relation to mantle plumes. For Asia, however, the observations seem to require a more complex pattern of thermal anomalies possibly complemented by variations in chemical composition.

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