An unsually large ULVZ at the base of the mantle near Hawaii

S Cottaar, B Romanowicz - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Previous studies have documented the presence of ultra-low-velocity-zones (ULVZs) at the
base of the mantle, through observations of body wave complexities. Geometrically their …

Lowermost mantle structure beneath the central Pacific Ocean: Ultralow velocity zones and seismic anisotropy

J Wolf, MD Long - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs) and seismic anisotropy are both commonly detected in the
lowermost mantle at the edges of the two antipodal large low velocity provinces (LLVPs) …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution map of Hawaiian ULVZ morphology from ScS phases

J Jenkins, S Mousavi, Z Li, S Cottaar - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
We use core reflected ScS waves sensitive to a broad region of the core-mantle boundary
beneath Hawaii to create the first high-resolution map of the Hawaiian ultralow-velocity zone …

Slab control on the northeastern edge of the mid‐Pacific LLSVP near Hawaii

D Sun, D Helmberger, VH Lai, M Gurnis… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
At the core‐mantle boundary, most observed ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs) cluster along
the edges of the large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) and provide key information on …

Intermittent and lateral varying ULVZ structure at the northeastern margin of the Pacific LLSVP

C Zhao, EJ Garnero, M Li… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thin patches with ultralow velocities have been proposed to exist at the core‐mantle
boundary (CMB). The detection and mapping of ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs) are difficult …

Slab control on the mega-sized North Pacific ultra-low velocity zone

J Li, D Sun, DJ Bower - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs) are localized small-scale patches with extreme physical
properties at the core-mantle boundary that often gather at the margins of Large Low …

Mega ultra low velocity zone and mantle flow

MS Thorne, EJ Garnero, G Jahnke, H Igel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Mantle flow in Earth's interior has been inferred from a variety of geo-disciplines. Two
continental-scale, nearly antipodal, large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base …

Kilometer-scale structure on the core–mantle boundary near Hawaii

Z Li, K Leng, J Jenkins, S Cottaar - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The lowermost mantle right above the core-mantle boundary is highly heterogeneous
containing multiple poorly understood seismic features. The smallest but most extreme …

ScP; a probe of ultralow velocity zones at the base of the mantle

EJ Garnero, JE Vidale - Geophysical research letters, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The core‐reflected phase ScP is a sensitive probe of the properties of an ultralow velocity
zone (ULVZ) at the base of the mantle. In synthetic experiments, a ULVZ with large …

[HTML][HTML] The P-wave boundary of the large-low shear velocity province beneath the Pacific

DA Frost, S Rost - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs) in the lower mantle represent
volumetrically significant thermal or chemical or thermo-chemical heterogeneities. Their …