An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth's inner core

W Wang, JE Vidale - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
The seismological properties of Earth's inner core are key to understanding its composition,
dynamics and growth history. Within the inner core, fine-scale heterogeneity has previously …

Enhanced inner core fine-scale heterogeneity towards Earth's centre

G Pang, KD Koper, SM Wu, W Wang, M Lasbleis… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Earth's inner core acquires texture as it solidifies within the fluid outer core. The size, shape
and orientation of the mostly iron grains making up the texture record the growth of the inner …

Scattering radiation pattern atlas: What anisotropic elastic properties can body waves resolve?

V Kazei, T Alkhalifah - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Full‐waveform inversion (FWI) optimizes the subsurface properties of geophysical Earth
models in such a way that the modeled data, based on these subsurface properties, match …

Origin of temporal changes of inner-core seismic waves

Y Yang, X Song - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Temporal changes of inner-core (IC) seismic phases have been confirmed with high-quality
waveform doublets. However, the nature of the temporal changes is still controversial. We …

Annual-scale variability in both the rotation rate and near surface of Earth's inner core

JE Vidale, W Wang, R Wang, G Pang, K Koper - Nature Geoscience, 2025 - nature.com
The inner core has been inferred to change its rotation rate or shape over years to decades
since the discovery of temporal variability in seismic waves from repeating earthquakes that …

Misinterpreted seismic evidence for localized rapid changes of the inner core boundary surface

Y Yang, X Song - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of the inner core (IC) temporal changes is of great importance in understanding
the deep earth dynamics. The comment by Tian and Wen (2023, https://doi. org/10.1029 …

Uppermost inner core seismic structure–new insights from body waveform inversion

J Attanayake, VF Cormier, SM de Silva - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Differential travel times and waveforms of PKIKP and PKiKP phases in the 129°–141°
distance range, deconvolved for the effects of source time functions and average mantle …

Very slow rotation of Earth's inner core from 1971 to 1974

JE Vidale - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rate that Earth's inner core rotates relative to the mantle and crust has been debated for
decades. Nonrotational processes, including internal deformation and flow in the outer core …

High‐resolution probing of inner core structure with seismic interferometry

HH Huang, FC Lin, VC Tsai… - Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing complexity of Earth's inner core has been revealed in recent decades as the
global distribution of seismic stations has improved. The uneven distribution of earthquakes …

Reconciling discrepancies among estimates of small-scale mantle heterogeneity from PKP precursors

NJ Mancinelli, PM Shearer - Geophysical Journal International, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We stack amplitudes of over 10 000 high-frequency (∼ 1 Hz) PKP precursor waveforms,
amassed from broad-band global seismic data with source–receiver distances between …