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 …

Much progress has been made over the past several decades in delineating the structure of
subducting slabs, but several key aspects of their dynamics remain poorly constrained …

Shear wave birefringence is a direct diagnostic of seismic anisotropy. It is often used to infer
the northern limit of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere, based on the seismic anisotropy …

Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

A robust knowledge of seismic anisotropy beneath the continents is essential to our
understanding of plate tectonic theory, as anisotropy provides a unique constraint on the …

Elasticity is described in general by a fourth-order tensor with 21 independent coefficients,
which corresponds to the triclinic symmetry class. However seismological observations are …

We study how numerically predicted seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle is affected by
several common assumptions about the rheology of the convecting mantle and deformation …

Teleseismic traveltime tomography remains one of the most popular methods for obtaining
images of Earth's upper mantle. However, despite extensive evidence for an elastically …

The mantle wedge above subducting slabs is associated with many important processes,
including the transport of melt and volatiles. Our understanding of mantle wedge dynamics is …

In this study, we utilize data from 64 broadband seismic stations of the Japanese F-net
network to investigate the three-dimensional pattern of anisotropy in the subduction system …