Mantle structure and tectonic history of SE Asia

R Hall, W Spakman - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Seismic travel-time tomography of the mantle under SE Asia reveals patterns of subduction-
related seismic P-wave velocity anomalies that are of great value in hel** to understand …

Nitric oxide: first in a new class of neurotransmitters

SH Snyder - Science, 1992 - science.org
Nitric oxide (NO) is a simple gas with free radical chemical properties, but itis often confused
with the chemically distinct nitrous oxide, N2O, which is used as an anesthetic and is …

Earth's evolving geodynamic regime recorded by titanium isotopes

Z Deng, M Schiller, MG Jackson, MA Millet, L Pan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Earth's mantle has a two-layered structure, with the upper and lower mantle domains
separated by a seismic discontinuity at about 660 km (refs.,). The extent of mass transfer …

Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes

SS Sun, WF McDonough - Geological Society, London, Special …, 1989 - lyellcollection.org
Trace-element data for mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs) and ocean island basalts (OIB)
are used to formulate chemical systematics for oceanic basalts. The data suggest that the …

Geochemical and geodynamical constraints on subduction zone magmatism

MT McCulloch, JA Gamble - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1991 - Elsevier
The geochemical and geodynamical parameters that may influence the composition of
island-arc basalts (IAB's) are evaluated. Systematic correlations amongst high-field strength …

[LIVRE][B] Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior

JP Poirier - 2000 - books.google.com
Enlarged and fully updated, this new edition takes into account the considerable
experimental and theoretical progress recently made in the field. Introduction to the Physics …

Anisotropic shear‐wave velocity structure of the Earth's mantle: A global model

B Kustowski, G Ekström… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We combine a new, large data set of surface wave phase anomalies, long‐period
waveforms, and body wave travel times to construct a three‐dimensional model of the …

Phase transformations and their bearing on the constitution and dynamics of the mantle

AE Ringwood - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1991 - Elsevier
The bulk chemical composition of the Upper Mantle (“pyrolite”) is derived from experimental
and petrological studies of the complementary relationships between basaltic magmas and …

Subducting slabs stagnant in the mantle transition zone

Y Fukao, M Obayashi, H Inoue… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
The P wave velocity structure beneath the Western Pacific is found from the International
Seismological Center first arrival data. Special attention was paid to the deep structure …

Stagnant slabs in the upper and lower mantle transition region

Y Fukao, S Widiyantoro, M Obayashi - Reviews of Geophysics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We made a region‐by‐region examination of subducted slab images along the circum‐
Pacific for some of the recent global mantle tomographic models, specifically for two high …