ScS shear-wave splitting in the lowermost mantle: Practical challenges and new global measurements

Many regions of the Earth's mantle are seismically anisotropic, including portions of the lowermost mantle, which may indicate deformation due to convective flow. The splitting of ScS phases, which reflect once off the core-mantle boundary (CMB), is commonly measured to identify lowermost mantl...

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Published in:	Seismica
Main Authors:	Jonathan Wolf, Maureen D. Long
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	McGill University 2024-04-01
Subjects:	seismic anisotropy numerical modelling computational seismology wave propagation lowermost mantle
Online Access:	https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view/1128

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