inclined with respect to the shear plane, the observations could possibly be matched. Roughly horizontal shearing of perovskite associated with a deforming Tonga slab may therefore explain the S-wave observations of Wookey et al. as well as the apparent absence of large splitting from the lower mantle in SKS and ScS phases that travel almost vertically beneath the Tonga subduction zone. The wor...

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