A potential post-perovskite province in D″ beneath the Eastern Pacific: evidence from new analysis of discrepant SKS–SKKS shear-wave splitting

Complex anisotropy in D′′ beneath the eastern Pacific from SKS–SKKS splitting discrepancies

Upper-mantle flow beneath French Polynesia from shear wave splitting

Fabrice R. Fontaine,1,2 Guilhem Barruol,1,3 Andréa Tommasi3 and Götz H. R. Bokelmann3 1Laboratoire Terre-Océan, Université de Polynésie française, BP 6570, 98702 Faaa, Tahiti, Polynésie française 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Building 61, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] 3Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Université Mo...

A post-perovskite lens and D'' heat flux beneath the central Pacific.

Temperature gradients in a low-shear-velocity province in the lowermost mantle (D'' region) beneath the central Pacific Ocean were inferred from the observation of a rapid S-wave velocity increase overlying a rapid decrease. These paired seismic discontinuities are attributed to a phase change from perovskite to post-perovskite and then back to perovskite as the temperature increases with depth...

Shear wave splitting and mantle flow associated with the deflected Pacific slab beneath northeast Asia

[1] A total of 361 SKS and five local S wave splitting measurements obtained at global and regional seismic network stations in NE China and Mongolia are used to infer the characteristics of mantle fabrics beneath northeast Asia. Fast polarization directions at most of the stations in the western part of the study area are found to be consistent with the strike of local geological features. The...

Complex anisotropy beneath the Peruvian flat slab from frequency- dependent, multiple-phase shear wave splitting analysis

[1] Flat or shallow subduction is a relatively widespread global occurrence, but the dynamics remain poorly understood. In particular, the interaction between flat slabs and the surrounding mantle flow has yet to be studied in detail. Here we present measurements of seismic anisotropy to investigate mantle flow beneath the Peruvian flat-slab segment, the largest present-day region of flat subdu...