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On the nature of the P-wave velocity gradient in the inner core beneath Central America

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Authors

Tkalčić, Hrvoje

Bodin, T.

Young, Mallory

Sambridge, Malcolm

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We conduct an experiment to investigate whether linearity in the observed velocity gradient in the volume of the inner core sampled by the PKP ray paths beneath Central America is a robust approximation. Instead of solving an optimization problem, we appr

Keywords

Keywords: Bayesian analysis; geophysical array; inner core; mantle structure; numerical model; optimization; P-wave; seismology; solid Earth; spatial variation; wave velocity; Central America deep geophysics; solid earth physics

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75161

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s12583-013-0365-7

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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