The core–mantle boundary layer and deep Earth dynamics

Nature ◽  
10.1038/33083 ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 392 (6675) ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorne Lay ◽  
Quentin Williams ◽  
Edward J. Garnero
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Mantle Boundary ◽  
Core Mantle Boundary ◽  
The Core ◽  
Deep Earth ◽  
Earth Dynamics

scholarly journals Synthetic seismic anisotropy models within a slab impinging on the core–mantle boundary

2014 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Cottaar ◽  
Mingming Li ◽  
Allen K. McNamara ◽  
Barbara Romanowicz ◽  
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Anisotropy ◽  
Mantle Boundary ◽  
Core Mantle Boundary ◽  
The Core

Application of spherical Slepian functions to the inversion of virtual observatory satellite magnetic data into localised regions of flow on the core-mantle boundary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rogers ◽  
Ciaran Beggan ◽  
Kathryn Whaler
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Surface ◽  
Surface Flow ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Virtual Observatory ◽  
Core Surface ◽  
Flow Models ◽  
Mantle Boundary ◽  
Core Mantle Boundary ◽  
The Core ◽  
Slepian Functions

<p>Spherical Slepian functions (or ‘Slepian functions’) are mathematical functions which can be used to decompose potential fields, as represented by spherical harmonics, into smaller regions covering part of a spherical surface. This allows a spatio-spectral trade-off between aliasing of the signal at the boundary edges while constraining it within a region of interest. While Slepian functions have previously been applied to geodetic and crustal magnetic data, this work further applies Slepian functions to flows on the core-mantle boundary. There are two main reasons for restricting flow models to certain parts of the core surface. Firstly, we have reason to believe that different dynamics operate in different parts of the core (such as under LLSVPs) while, secondly, the modelled flow is ambiguous over certain parts of the surface (when applying flow assumptions). Spherical Slepian functions retain many of the advantages of our usual flow description, concerning for example the boundary conditions it must satisfy, and allowing easy calculation of the power spectrum, although greater initial computational effort is required.</p><p><br>In this work, we apply Slepian functions to core flow models by directly inverting from satellite virtual observatory magnetic data into regions of interest. We successfully demonstrate the technique and current short comings by showing whole core surface flow models, flow within a chosen region, and its corresponding complement. Unwanted spatial leakage is generated at the region edges in the separated flows but to less of an extent than when using spherical Slepian functions on existing flow models. The limited spectral content we can infer for core flows is responsible for most, if not all, of this leakage. Therefore, we present ongoing investigations into the cause of this leakage, and to highlight considerations when applying Slepian functions to core surface flow modelling.</p>

Multiple inner core reflections from a Novaya Zemlya explosion

1972 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1063-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Inner Core ◽  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Outer Core ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Mantle Boundary ◽  
Core Mantle Boundary ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
The Core ◽  
Velocity Channel

Abstract The phases P2KP, P3KP, and P4KP are well recorded from the Novaya Zemlya nuclear explosion of October 14, 1970, with the branch AB at distances of up to 20° beyond the theoretical end point A. This extension is attributed to diffraction around the core-mantle boundary. A slowness dT/dΔ = 4.56±0.02 sec/deg is determined for the AB branch of P4KP, in excellent agreement with recent determinations of the slowness of diffracted P. This slowness implies a velocity of 13.29±0.06 km/sec at the base of the mantle, and confirms recent suggestions of a low-velocity channel above the core-mantle boundary. There is evidence that arrivals recorded before the AB branch of P2KP may lie on two branches, with different slownesses. The ratio of amplitudes of successive orders of multiple inner core reflections gives a lower bound of about 2200 for Q in the outer core.

The thermal signature of subducted lithospheric slabs at the core–mantle boundary

1998 ◽  
Vol 160 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 551-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mériaux ◽  
Amotz Agnon ◽  
John R. Lister
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Boundary ◽  
Core Mantle Boundary ◽  
The Core ◽  
Thermal Signature
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