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  title info:
    title: Plate Deformation from Cradle to Grave
    sub title: Seismic Anisotropy and Deformation at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in the Lowermost Mantle
  name:
    name part: Nowacki, Andy.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 166 p. 70 illus., 61 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The mantle’s interfaces – the core-mantle boundary and the lithosphere – may hold the key to understanding mantle motion, because of the seismic anisotropy present in these parts of the Earth. This thesis contains a substantive introduction to the structure of the Earth, seismic anisotropy in the core-mantle boundary region and in general, and mid-ocean ridge processes. It also describes novel methods for forward modelling and interpreting shear wave splitting data. Three chapters present timely research into dynamics at divergent plate boundaries and at the core-mantle boundary. Andy Nowacki presents a precise, but comprehensive review of the current state of the art in studying flow with anisotropy, mineral physics and geodynamics. New measurements of shear wave anisotropy in the lowermost mantle and at mid-ocean ridges are used to constrain mechanisms of creep and melt extraction in the mantle. A model of global flow is used to predict anisotropy in the deep Earth, and novel methods to forward model shear wave splitting are described. Future studies of mantle flow must incorporate the understanding gained in this thesis. .
  table of contents: Seismic anisotropy and deformation in the lowermost mantle -- Mantle anisotropy beneath the Earth’s mid-ocean ridges -- Deformation of the lowermost mantle from seismic anisotropy -- Predicting lowermost mantle anisotropy using models of mantle flow.
  note: by Andy Nowacki.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Structural geology
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Structural Geology
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 551
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9783642348426
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34842-6
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    record creation date: 121214
    record change date: 20151030071227.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-34842-6