Increased density of large low-velocity provinces recovered by seismologically constrained gravity inversion

Szwillus, Wolfgang; Ebbing, Jörg; Steinberger, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1551-2020

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1551-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1551-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Research article

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26 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 26 Aug 2020

Increased density of large low-velocity provinces recovered by seismologically constrained gravity inversion

Wolfgang Szwillus, Jörg Ebbing, and Bernhard Steinberger

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1551-2020-supplement

Data sets

SubMachine: Web-Based Tools for Exploring Seismic Tomography and Other Models of Earth's Deep Interior (http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~smachine) K. Hosseini, K. J. Matthews, K. Sigloch, G. E. Shephard, M. Domeier, and M. Tsekhmistrenko https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007431

Model code and software

PerpleX J. A. D. Connolly http://www.perplex.ethz.ch/

Mineos G. Masters, J. H. Woodhouse and G. Freeman https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/mineos/

llvp-density W. Szwillus https://github.com/wokos/llvp-density

Short summary

At the bottom of the mantle (2850 km depth) two large volumes of reduced seismic velocity exist...