Plate Deformation from Cradle to Grave Seismic Anisotropy and Deformation at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in the Lowermost Mantle /

• Main Author: Nowacki, Andy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Structural geology.; Mineralogy.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Structural Geology.

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...

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.