The Earth's heterogeneous mantle : a geophysical, geodynamical, and geochemical perspective /: a geophysical, geodynamical, and geochemical perspective. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Amir Khan, Frédéric Deschamps, editors.
• Editors: (Geophysicist), Khan, Amir; (Geophysicist), Deschamps, Frédéric
• Contents: Part I: Upper Mantle and Transition Zone -- Global Heterogeneity of the Lithosphere and Underlying Mantle: a Seismological Appraisal Based on Multimode Surface-wave Dispersion Analysis, Shear-Velocity Tomography, and Tectonic Regionalization -- Origin of Lateral Heterogeneities in the Upper Mantle Beneath Southeast Australia from Seismic Tomography -- Imaging Mantle Heterogeneity with Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities -- Interpreting Radial Anisotropy in Global and Regional Tomographic Models -- Relationships between Seismic Wave-Speed, Density, and Electrical Conductivity Beneath Australia from Seismology, Mineralogy, and Laboratory-Based Conductivity Profiles from Seismic Tomography -- Heterogeneity of Electrical Conductivity in the Oceanic Upper Mantle -- Melt-Pockets and Spongy Clinopyroxenes in Mantle Xenoliths from Plio-Quaternary Al Ghab Volcanic Field, NW Syria: Implications for the Metasomatic Evolution of the Lithosphere -- Elasticity of Continental Crust Around the Mantle Transition Zone -- Effect of Water on Subduction of Continental Materials to the Deep Earth -- Part II: Lower Mantle -- The Composition of the Deep Earth -- Chemical Geodynamics in a Non-Chondritic Earth -- Seismic Detections Of Small-Scale Heterogeneities in the Deep Earth -- Seismic Detection of Post-Perovskite Inside the Earth -- Thermally Dominated Deep Mantle LLSVPs : A Review -- Large-Scale Thermo-Chemical Structure of the Deep Mantle: Observations and Models.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, color illustrations
• Subjects: 551.1; Earth sciences; Inhomogeneous materials; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Inhomogeneous materials; Mantle of the Earth; Science -- Earth Sciences -- General; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Mineralogy; Geochemistry; Mineralogy & gems; Physical geography; Geochemistry; Mineralogy; Science -- Geophysics; Geophysics; Earth (Planet) -- Mantle; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319156279; 3319156276; 3319156268; 9783319156262
• Related ISBNs: 9783319156262
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 5, 2015).
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