Seismic evidence for water deep in Earth's upper mantle

Mark Van der Meijde; Federica Marone; Domenico Giardini; Suzan Van der Lee

doi:10.1126/science.1083636

Seismic evidence for water deep in Earth's upper mantle

Mark Van der Meijde^*, Federica Marone, Domenico Giardini, Suzan Van der Lee

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Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Abstract

Water in the deep upper mantle can influence the properties of seismic discontinuities in the mantle transition zone. Observations of converted seismic waves provide evidence of a 20- to 35-kilometer-thick discontinuity near a depth of 410 kilometers, most likely explained by as much as 700 parts per million of water by weight.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1556-1558
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	300
Issue number	5625
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1083636
State	Published - Jun 6 2003

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