Published February 14, 1985
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Journal Article
Lower mantle heterogeneity, dynamic topography and the geoid
Chicago
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Abstract
Density contrasts in the lower mantle, inferred using seismic tomography, drive viscous flow; this results in kilometres of dynamically maintained topography at the core-mantle boundary and at the Earth's surface. The total gravity field due to interior density contrasts and dynamic boundary topography predicts the longest-wavelength components of the geoid remarkably well. Neglecting dynamic surface deformation leads to geoid anomalies of opposite sign to those observed.
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© 1985 Nature Publishing Group. Received 2 July; accepted 29 October 1984. We thank D. L. Anderson, C. Chase, R. J. O'Connell and D. J. Stevenson for helpful comments. This work was supported by NASA grants NAG5-315, NSG-7610, NAS5-27226, NSF grant EAR-8317623, by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (B.H.H.), and by a Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellowship (R.P.C.). Contribution no. 4065, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.Additional details
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- NAG5-315
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- NSG-7610
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- NAS5-27226
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- EAR-8317623
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Bantrell Fellowship
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- Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)
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- Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
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- 4065