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Robust Normal Mode Constraints on Inner-Core Anisotropy from Model Space Search
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Authors
Caroline Beghein 
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Jeannot Trampert
Abstract
A technique for searching full model space that was applied to measurements of anomalously split normal modes showed a robust pattern of P-wave and S-wave anisotropy in the inner core. The parameter describing P-wave anisotropy changes sign around a radius of 400 kilometers, whereas S-wave anisotropy is small in the upper two-thirds of the inner core and becomes negative at greater depths. Our results agree with observed travel-time anomalies of rays traveling at epicentral distances varying from 150° to 180°. The models may be explained by progressively tilted hexagonal close-packed iron in the upper half of the inner core and could suggest a different iron phase in the center.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/qu75c
Subjects
Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Keywords
Seismic anisotropy, Inverse theory, model space search, normal modes, inner core
Dates
Published: 2017-11-04 03:57
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