Welcome to the IRIS Image Gallery - a diverse collection of photographs and visuals that encompass the range and breadth of seismology and the seismological community.
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Global 3D configuration (extending from the mapped surface to the core-mantle boundary) of seismic velocity heterogeneities in the mantle as imaged by seismic tomography. Red regions have relatively low S-wave velocities, while blue regions have relatively fast S-wave velocities. The image is dominated by two enormous low-velocity regions, beneath Africa and the central Pacific plates, and by a ring of high velocities underlying subduction zones around the rim of the Pacific. (Image courtesy of A. Dziewonski).
Date Taken: February 18, 2009 Photographer / Contributor: A. Dziewonski
