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No. 9 · Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·

Pervasive seismic low-velocity zones within stagnant plates in the mantle transition zone: Thermal or compositional origin?

Benoît Tauzin, Seongryong Kim, Brian L. N. Kennett

Representative figure

Maps of Z1 amplitudes and seismicity in the Japan sector alongside a shear-wave tomography depth slice.

Two negative-reflectivity bands delineate stagnant slab regions and likely require more than a purely thermal explanation.

Figure 7 · Tauzin, Kim, and Kennett (2017), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Figure 7. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Benoît Tauzin, Seongryong Kim, and Brian L. N. Kennett (2017), Pervasive seismic low-velocity zones within stagnant plates in the mantle transition zone: Thermal or compositional origin?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 477, 1–13, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.006. [Open access]

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