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The 43 pages that link to Seismic tomography, each with the reason it gives.

• Mantle plumeRelated: The main tool for testing whether plumes exist; resolution limits keep the debate alive.

• Seismic waveRelated: Wave speeds and paths let tomography map otherwise inaccessible regions underground.

• SeismologyBroader topic: Maps mantle convection and slab sinks that drive the plates.

• Seismic reflectionCompared with: Tomography estimates broad velocity structure rather than primarily mapping reflected boundaries.

• Hotspot volcanismRelated: It can reveal low-velocity structures interpreted as hot mantle beneath hotspots.

• SeismometerRelated: Seismometer records supply the wave observations used to infer underground structure.

• Earth's mantleRelated: Tomographic images reveal mantle structures such as sinking slabs and rising plumes.

• P wavesRelated: Variations in P-wave speeds help map structures deep inside Earth.

• GeophysicsBroader topic: It images mantle and crustal structure from earthquake and controlled-source data.

• Indian PlateRelated: Tomographic images reveal Indian lithosphere descending beneath the Himalaya and Tibet.

• S-waveRelated: S-wave speeds help map variations in mantle composition and temperature.

• Seismic anisotropyNarrower topic: Tomography supplies imaging methods that can estimate anisotropic as well as isotropic structure.

• Mohorovičić discontinuityRelated: Tomographic models show how the Moho varies laterally and with depth.

• Earth's coreRelated: It helps reveal structure and temperature patterns near the core's boundaries.

• Hotspot (geology)Related: Tomographic images test whether proposed plume conduits extend deep into the mantle.

• Seismic refractionCompared with: Tomography resolves distributed velocity structure, while conventional refraction often assumes discrete layers.

• Core–mantle boundaryRelated: Tomographic images map hot and cold mantle structures approaching the boundary.

• Electrical resistivity tomographyCompared with: It provides subsurface images from wave propagation rather than electrical conduction.

• Beno GutenbergRelated: Modern tomography extends Gutenberg’s use of wave behavior to map internal structure.

• Inge LehmannRelated: Modern imaging extends the kind of inference from wave behavior that underpinned her discovery.

• Seismic velocityRelated: Its velocity images map variations in temperature, composition, and structure.

• Slab pullRelated: The technique that made sinking slabs directly observable in the deep mantle.

• Oceanic lithosphereRelated: It reveals cold, fast seismic structures associated with oceanic lithosphere.

• SeismogramRelated: Many station traces supply the arrival and waveform data used to infer structure.

• Surface waveRelated: Surface-wave travel speeds contribute maps of variations in crust and upper-mantle structure.

• Yellowstone hotspotRelated: Tomographic images are used to infer the shape and depth of the proposed Yellowstone plume.

• Earth's outer coreRelated: It helps map structure and heterogeneity near the core's boundaries.

• Magnetic anomalyCompared with: It images Earth through wave propagation instead of static magnetic-field variations.

• Mantle transition zoneRelated: Tomography maps slabs and hot regions whose interactions with the zone are unresolved.

• Mantle viscosityRelated: Tomographic temperature and structure estimates help test viscosity models, but do not measure viscosity directly.

• Harold JeffreysRelated: Jeffreys’s seismic work helped lay quantitative foundations for imaging Earth’s interior.

• MagnetotelluricsCompared with: It images elastic properties, complementing magnetotelluric maps of electrical resistivity.

• Volcano seismologyRelated: It helps image magma-related structures beneath a volcano.

• West Antarctic Rift SystemRelated: Tomographic images help identify warm, low-velocity mantle beneath the rift.

• Whole-mantle convectionRelated: Tomographic images trace slabs and plumes, but interpretation of their continuity is not unique.

• Upper mantleRelated: It maps upper-mantle temperature and structure from variations in wave speed.

• Internal structure of EarthRelated: It maps variations within layers rather than only locating their boundaries.

• Birch's lawRelated: Interpreting tomographic speed anomalies requires connecting velocities to material density.

• Central Indian RidgeRelated: It helps investigate mantle structure beneath the spreading ridge.

• Lower mantleRelated: Its images reveal cold slabs and hot regions within the lower mantle.

• Ambient noise seismologyNarrower topic: Ambient-noise measurements provide an earthquake-independent input to seismic imaging.

• GeodynamicsRelated: It maps structures that constrain models of mantle flow.

• GeomathematicsBroader topic: It turns earthquake-wave observations into mathematical images of subsurface structure.