Inferring the thermochemical structure of the upper mantle from seismic data
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Fabio Cammarano,1 Barbara Romanowicz,2 Lars Stixrude,3 Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni3 and Wenbo Xu4 1Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8091, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected] 2Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, 215 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, UK 4Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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