Publication Date:
2003-06-07
Description:
Water in the deep upper mantle can influence the properties of seismic discontinuities in the mantle transition zone. Observations of converted seismic waves provide evidence of a 20- to 35-kilometer-thick discontinuity near a depth of 410 kilometers, most likely explained by as much as 700 parts per million of water by weight.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉van der Meijde, Mark -- Marone, Federica -- Giardini, Domenico -- van der Lee, Suzan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Jun 6;300(5625):1556-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Geophysics, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-Honggerberg (HPP)/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. mark@tomo.ig.erdw.ethz.ch〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12791988" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
