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

Autor: Jiewen Li, Daoyuan Sun, Dan J. Bower
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
10621040
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28708-8
Popis: 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.
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