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Sun et al. 2006
Sun, D., Song, T.A. and Helmberger, D. (2006). Complexity of D¿ in the presence of slab-debris and phase changes. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025384. issn: 0094-8276.

A lower mantle S-wave triplication with a Scd branch is easily observed beneath Central American and its lateral variations has been studied extensively. Attempts to model Scd depth variations with a phase boundary based on tomography predict smooth variations . Recently, Hutko et al. <2005> presents evidence of a sharper feature with a vertical step-like jump of over 50 km, for paths sampling the western edge of a fast lower mantle structure beneath the Cocos Plate. We present a similar type of very anomalous Scd waveforms sampling the edge further to the east. We are able to model these waveforms by adopting the phase-boundary model but enhancing the existing tomographic anomaly just above the velocity jump, which appears to be a folded-slab.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Earth's interior, dynamics (1507, 7207, 7208, 8115, 8120), Seismology, Body waves, Seismology, Mantle (1212, 1213, 8124), Tectonophysics, Earth's interior, composition and state (1212, 7207, 7208, 8105)
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Geophysical Research Letters
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