Caveats on tomographic images

GR Foulger, GF Panza, IM Artemieva, ID Bastow… - Terra …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Geological and geodynamic models of the mantle often rely on joint interpretations of
published seismic tomography images and petrological/geochemical data. This approach …

Anisotropy in the deep Earth

B Romanowicz, HR Wenk - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2017 - Elsevier
Seismic anisotropy has been found in many regions of the Earth's interior. Its presence in the
Earth's crust has been known since the 19th century, and is due in part to the alignment of …

Global adjoint tomography—model GLAD-M25

W Lei, Y Ruan, E Bozdağ, D Peter… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Building on global adjoint tomography model GLAD-M15, we present transversely isotropic
global model GLAD-M25, which is the result of 10 quasi-Newton tomographic iterations with …

Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model

E Bozdağ, D Peter, M Lefebvre… - … Supplements to the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the first-generation global tomographic model constructed based on adjoint
tomography, an iterative full-waveform inversion technique. Synthetic seismograms were …

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

SW French, BA Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal International, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The radially anisotropic shear velocity structure of the Earth's mantle provides a critical
window on the interior dynamics of the planet, with isotropic variations that are interpreted in …

Global mantle structure from multifrequency tomography using P, PP and P-diffracted waves

K Hosseini, K Sigloch, M Tsekhmistrenko… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In global-scale seismic tomography, teleseismic P and PP waves mainly constrain structures
in the upper two thirds of the mantle, whereas core-diffracted waves (Pdiff) constrain the …

The relationship between shear wave velocity, temperature, attenuation and viscosity in the shallow part of the mantle

K Priestley, D McKenzie - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Surface wave tomography, using the fundamental Rayleigh wave velocities and those of
higher modes between 1 and 4 and periods between 50 and 160 s, is used to image …

SubMachine: Web‐based tools for exploring seismic tomography and other models of Earth's deep interior

K Hosseini, KJ Matthews, K Sigloch… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present SubMachine, a collection of web‐based tools for the interactive visualization,
analysis, and quantitative comparison of global‐scale data sets of the Earth's interior …

Savani: A variable resolution whole‐mantle model of anisotropic shear velocity variations based on multiple data sets

L Auer, L Boschi, TW Becker… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a tomographic model of radially anisotropic shear velocity variations in the
Earth's mantle based on a new compilation of previously published data sets and a variable …

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The deployment of USArray during the last decade has produced dense sampling of the
central part of the North American continent with broadband seismic data. Regional …