


We obtain compatible results by repeating the analysis on recent global P-wave speed (VP) models” -summary Geophysical Journal International Mapping of structures under Earth’s mantle. Qualitatively, we relate the anomalously slow cluster to the LLSVPs, the anomalously fast cluster to slab material entering the lower mantle and the neutral cluster to ‘background’ lower mantle material. We also show that three clusters are better than two (or four) when representing the entire lower mantle, as the boundaries of the three clusters more closely follow regions of high lateral VS gradients. By restricting the analysis to moving depth windows of the radial profiles of VS, we assess the vertical extent of features. Here, we extend the cluster analysis methodology of Lekic et al., to classify seismic mantle structure in five recent global shear wave speed (VS) tomographic models into three groups. For decades, seismologists have created increasingly detailed pictures of the LLSVPs through tomographic models constructed with different modeling methodologies, data sets, parametrizations and regularizations. “Large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs), whose origin and dynamic implication remain enigmatic, dominate the lowermost mantle. Tomographical maps provide a look into the interior of the Earth or rather what is underneath us. Mapping of structures under Earth’s mantle.

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