Sensitivities of seismic velocities to temperature, pressure and composition in the lower mantle

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Aug 2001

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 124, Issue 3-4, p. 255-267.

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We calculated temperature, pressure and compositional sensitivities of seismic velocities in the lower mantle using latest mineral physics data. The compositional variable refers to the volume proportion of perovskite in a simplified perovskite-magnesiowüstite mantle assemblage. The novelty of our approach is the exploration of a reasonable range of input parameters which enter the lower mantle extrapolations. This leads to realistic error bars on the sensitivities. Temperature variations can be inferred throughout the lower mantle within a good degree of precision. Contrary to the uppermost mantle, modest compositional changes in the lower mantle can be detected by seismic tomography, with a larger uncertainty though. A likely trade-off between temperature and composition will be largely determined by uncertainties in tomography itself. Given current sources of uncertainties on recent data, anelastic contributions to the temperature sensitivities (calculated using Karato's approach) appear less significant than previously thought. Recent seismological determinations of the ratio of relative S to P velocity heterogeneity can be entirely explain by thermal effects, although isolated spots beneath Africa and the Central Pacific in the lowermost mantle may ask for a compositional origin.

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