Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) for imaging Earth's interior was introduced in the late
1970s. Its ultimate goal is to use all of the information in a seismogram to understand the …

The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

Considerations from cosmochemistry and the study of meteorites permit us to place only
very broad bounds on the chemistry of the Earth's interior. These tell us little about the …

Structural geologists are well aware of the fact that isotropic rocks are quite exceptional in
nature. Whicheverorigin, sedimentary, metamorphicormagmatic, rocks are shaped with a …

The interpretation of seismic anisotropy in Earth's upper mantle has traditionally been based
on the fabrics (lattice-preferred orientation) of relatively water-poor olivine. Here we show …

The Earth's lower mantle is believed to be composed mainly of (Mg, Fe) SiO3 perovskite,
with lesser amounts of (Mg, Fe) O and CaSiO3 (ref.). But it has not been possible to explain …

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 …

Understanding the geotectonic evolution of the southeastern Tibetan plateau requires
knowledge about the structure of the lithosphere. Using data from 77 broadband stations in …

摘要基于中国地震科学探测台阵项目一期在南北地震带南段架设的300 多个地震台站,
利用2011 年10 月至2012 年9 月的连续观测记录, 采用基于背景噪声互相关函数的面波层析 …

How cratons—extremely stable continental areas of the Earth's crust—formed and remained
largely unchanged for more than 2,500 million years is much debated. Recent studies of …