![](/images/icons/spacer.gif) |
Detailed Reference Information |
Helffrich, G., Kaneshima, S. and Kendall, J.-M. (2002). A local, crossing-path study of attenuation and anisotropy of the inner core. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2001GL014059. issn: 0094-8276. |
|
We report results from studying a region under the north Pacific using 46 ray paths along east-west and north-south directions to study the nature of inner core anisotropy, and find an anisotropy signal in differential PKPBC--PKPDF at about the resolution of the data, with north-south paths faster than east-west, but no dependence of attenuation on wavespeed or depth in this part of the inner core. Inner core Q is 130-52+255 between 140--340 km depth. The observations also provide constraints on the degree of homogeneous meridional anisotropy possibly present in the core, to between 0.1 and 0.6% velocity differences in the fast and slow directions, significantly smaller than the 2--4% axi-symmetric anisotropy in the inner core. The small meridional component to anisotropy argues against significant contributions to anisotropy from low-order inner core convection or stresses imposed on the inner core by the outer core field. |
|
![](/images/icons/spacer.gif) |
![](/images/icons/spacer.gif) |
BACKGROUND DATA FILES |
|
![](../images/icons/sq.gif) |
Abstract![](/images/icons/spacer.gif) |
|
![](../images/buttons/download.very.flat.gif) |
|
|
|
Keywords
Mineral Physics, Elasticity and anelasticity, Seismology, Core and mantle, Seismology, Body wave propagation |
|
Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
|
|
![](/images/icons/spacer.gif) |