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Lay et al. 2004
Lay, T., Garnero, E.J. and Russell, S.A. (2004). Lateral variation of the D¿ discontinuity beneath the Cocos Plate. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL020300. issn: 0094-8276.

Broadband shear wave signals from 15 deep South American earthquakes reveal small-scale variations of the D″ shear velocity discontinuity beneath the Cocos Plate. Deconvolution by average event source wavelets allows multiple event and California station combinations to be double-array stacked in 4 geographically separate reflection point bins with lateral dimensions of about 200 km. Reflections from the top of D″ are apparent in all 4 bins, with significant variations in timing and strength relative to ScS. The data are compatible with a discontinuous shear velocity increase 264 km above the core-mantle boundary that varies laterally in strength from 0.9% to 2.6%, with corresponding lateral velocity variations within D″.

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Keywords
Seismology, Body wave propagation, Seismology, Core and mantle, Tectonophysics, Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle—general, Tectonophysics, Earth's interior—composition and state
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Geophysical Research Letters
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