期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 107, 期 21, 页码 9507-9512出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004856107
关键词
elastic anisotropy; Fe-bcc/-hcp; PKiKP/PKIKP waves; molecular dynamics
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [CGL2008-00891]
- Ramon y Cajal program
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid [910399]
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
- National Science Foundation [EAR-0810255, EAR-0911492]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [911492] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
It has been shown that the Earth's inner core has an axisymmetric anisotropic structure with seismic waves traveling similar to 3% faster along polar paths than along equatorial directions. Hemispherical anisotropic patterns of the solid Earth's core are rather complex, and the commonly used hexagonal-close-packed iron phase might be insufficient to account for seismological observations. We show that the data we collected are in good agreement with the presence of two anisotropically specular east and west core hemispheres. The detected travel-time anomalies can only be disclosed by a lattice-preferred orientation of a body-centered-cubic iron aggregate, having a fraction of their [111] crystal axes parallel to the Earth's rotation axis. This is compelling evidence for the presence of a body-centered-cubic Fe phase at the top of the Earth's inner core.
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