Near-vertical multiple ScS phases and vertically averaged mantle properties

• Main Authors: Kanamori, Hiroo, Rivera, Luis
• Other Authors: Anderson, Don L., Foulger, Gillian R., Lustrino, Michele, King, Scott D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 2015
• Subjects: ScS; mantle Q; mantle S-wave speed; hot spot; Samoa; Hawaii; Tonga; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1130/2015.2514(02

Near-vertical multiple ScS (S waves reflected at the core-mantle boundary) phases are among the cleanest seismic phases traveling over several thousand kilometers in the Earth's mantle and are useful for constraining the average attenuation and shear wave speed in the whole mantle. However, the...