Nature Communications (May 2021)

Segregated oceanic crust trapped at the bottom mantle transition zone revealed from ambient noise interferometry

  • Jikun Feng,
  • Huajian Yao,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Piero Poli,
  • Zhu Mao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22853-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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By combining ambient noise interferometry with mineral physics modeling, this work sheds new light on mantle transition zone physics. Their findings provide new evidence of segregated oceanic crust subducted and trapped within the mantle transition zone, implying complex mantle circulation modes.