Slab control on the mega-sized North Pacific ultra-low velocity zone

Jiewen Li; Daoyuan Sun; Dan J. Bower

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28708-8

Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Slab control on the mega-sized North Pacific ultra-low velocity zone

Jiewen Li,
Daoyuan Sun,
Dan J. Bower

Affiliations

Jiewen Li: Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Daoyuan Sun: Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Dan J. Bower: Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28708-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs) are localized small-scale patches with extreme physical properties at the core-mantle boundary. Here, the authors discover a mega-sized ULVZ (1,500 × 900 km) at the northern edge of the Pacific Large Low Velocity Province.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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