Imaging subducted slabs to trace Earth's history

[BillTre]

It seems that geologists are becoming more able to visualize subducted slabs.

They hope to be able to unwind the tape of Earth history, to some extent, (like 250 million years).

 

[DaveC426913]

All I can say is: man, that is one catchy thread title.

 

[CapnGranite]

The 2012 Fall Meeting of the AGU had a special session on seismic tomography. At that point it had come a long way from the stuff I was looking at in the late 1990's. Since 2012, with the ability to process and utilize "noise" and other refinements, seismic tomography has become an awesome tool. Here are a couple posters from the 2012 meeting:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/2012/12/AGU2012_36x60.pdf
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/2012/11/poster8.pdf

Another from 2013: https://membership.agu.org/files/2014/01/2013-AGU-poster-Mingming-Li-Allen-McNamara-Ed-Garnero.pdf (I think this one is open-access)

 

[BillTre]

All I can say is: man, that is one catchy thread title.

I can't take credit for it, stole it from the article.

 

[davenn]

The 2012 Fall Meeting of the AGU had a special session on seismic tomography. At that point it had come a long way from the stuff I was looking at in the late 1990's. Since 2012, with the ability to process and utilize "noise" and other refinements, seismic tomography has become an awesome tool. Here are a couple posters from the 2012 meeting:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/2012/12/AGU2012_36x60.pdf
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/2012/11/poster8.pdf

Another from 2013: https://membership.agu.org/files/2014/01/2013-AGU-poster-Mingming-Li-Allen-McNamara-Ed-Garnero.pdf (I think this one is open-access)

nice posters, thanks