Scatter and bias in differential PKP travel times and implications for mantle and core phenomena
- 15 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 21 (19) , 2167-2170
- https://doi.org/10.1029/94gl01876
Abstract
Differential travel times, commonly used to eliminate unwanted near‐source and near‐receiver heterogeneity from travel time studies, can be affected by slabs and hypocentral errors when phase pair slownesses differ greatly. In particular, D″ and core structure studies can be biased if differential PKP times are used. Here we present differential PKP travel time measurements having significant azimuthal travel time anomalies consistent both in size and pattern with a near‐source slab effect and explore other sources of error in differential times.Keywords
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