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Ritsema et al. 1995
Ritsema, J., Hagerty, M. and Lay, T. (1995). Comparison of broadband and short-period seismic waveform stacks: Implications for upper-mantle discontinuity structure. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL03318. issn: 0094-8276.

Stacks of short-period and broadband seismic waveforms from four deep (h>550 km) earthquakes in South America recorded in California exhibit small amplitude signals between the direct P and surface-reflected pP phases. The anomalous and variable slownesses of these signals in short-period stacks, as well as differences between short-period and broadband stacks suggest that the weak arrivals originate by reflection from laterally varying structure in the mantle near the subduction zone. The only structure consistently producing near-source and near-receiver reflections is the ''410 km'' discontinuity, which varies in depth by ¿10 km, and has an impedance contrast comparable with that predicted by reference Earth models. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Keywords
Seismology, Lithosphere and upper mantle, Seismology, Continental crust, Seismology, Core and mantle
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Geophysical Research Letters
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