scholarly journals The influence of the transition zone water filter on convective circulation in the mantle

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett M. Leahy ◽  
David Bercovici
Author(s):  
Shun-Ichiro Karato ◽  
David Bercovici ◽  
Garrett Leahy ◽  
Guillaume Richard ◽  
Zhicheng Jing

Nature ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 425 (6953) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bercovici ◽  
Shun-ichiro Karato

Author(s):  
Lev Vinnik ◽  
Yangfan Deng ◽  
Grigoriy Kosarev ◽  
Sergey Oreshin ◽  
Zhou Zhang ◽  
...  

Summary Sharpness of the 410-km boundary is of interest because it is sensitive to water content in the transition zone. We evaluate the width of the 410-km discontinuity with a new seismic method. Our estimates are inferred from the amplitude ratio of the P2p410s and P410s seismic phases that are detected in P-wave receiver functions. We applied this method to seismic recordings from arrays of broad-band stations deployed in central Fennoscandia, southern Africa and southern China. The obtained estimates of width of the 410-km discontinuity range from 10 to 22 km and always exceed the width of 7 km which is expected for anhydrous conditions. The enlarged width may be interpreted in terms of hydrous conditions, but we have found only one region (the eastern Yangtze Craton in China) where the broad 410-km discontinuity, as expected, is accompanied by a broad transition zone. Water in the transition zone may be a kind of a global phenomenon, but evidence of the enlarged width of the transition zone may be missing in most of our data because the reference seismic model is affected by water, as well.


Nature ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 460 (7258) ◽  
pp. 1003-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kelbert ◽  
Adam Schultz ◽  
Gary Egbert

Waterlines ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinay Pratap Singh ◽  
Malay Chaudhuri

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