Much progress has been made over the past several decades in delineating the structure of
subducting slabs, but several key aspects of their dynamics remain poorly constrained …

Observations of seismic anisotropy yield some of the most direct constraints available on
both past and present-day deformation in the Earth's mantle. Insight into the character of …

Patterns of mantle flow are most directly inferred from observations of seismic anisotropy,
which is mainly caused by the crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) of olivine, the …

Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

The direction of tectonic plate motion at the Earth's surface and the flow field of the mantle
inferred from seismic anisotropy are well correlated globally, suggesting large-scale …

We analyzed the shear-wave splitting at 138 permanent seismograph stations to study
seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics under Mainland China. To obtain reliable results …

A long-standing theory for the genesis of continental crust is that it is formed in subduction
zones. However, the observed seismic properties of lower crust and upper mantle in oceanic …

Although an average westward rotation of the Earth's lithosphere is indicated by global
analyses of surface features tied to the deep mantle (eg, hot spot tracks), the rate of …

We compare a global compilation of shear-wave splitting measurements with azimuthal
seismic anisotropy parameters inferred from surface-wave tomography. The currently …

Inferring the circulation of the mantle around subducting plates from surface measurements
of shear wave splitting patterns remains to date elusive. To assist the interpretation of the …