Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2021)

Quasi-Love wave scattering reveals tectonic history of Australia and its margins reflected by mantle anisotropy

  • Caroline M. Eakin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00276-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Quasi-Love wave scattering is used to identify gradients in seismic anisotropy in the mantle beneath Australia that may represent major lithospheric boundaries between geological provinces and modified mantle flow along the ocean-continent transition.