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Seismic Insights into Deep Earth Dynamics: Plumes, Slabs, and CMB
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The provided text, "Deep Earth Seismic Processes Research," offers a comprehensive overview of Earth's dynamic mantle convection and the fundamental structures driving it. It explains how mantle plumes, which are hot, buoyant upwellings, and subducting slabs, which are cold, dense downwellings, collectively govern processes like plate tectonics and volcanism. The text details the challenges and advancements in seismic imaging techniques used to visualize these deep-seated features, including the complex Core-Mantle Boundary (CMB) and enigmatic Ultra-Low Velocity Zones (ULVZs). Finally, it explores the indirect relationship between deep-focus earthquakes and ULVZs, highlighting how the former are crucial tools for studying the latter, and how both are ultimately linked by the overarching process of subduction.
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