NoLiMit MATLAB package v1.0. Non-Linear Bayesian partition Modeling of the Earth's Mantle Transition zone

This release is associated with the accepted publication in Nature Geoscience:

Waszek L., Tauzin B., Schmerr N., Ballmer M. and Afonso J.C. A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves. Nature Geoscience, 2021.

This version of the NoLimit software package allows prediction of synthetic seismic waveforms for SS and PP-precursors from mineral physics models, as well as their processing for reconstructing the surface of seismic boundaries associated with major mineralogical phase transitions in the Earth’s mantle (the 410-km and 660-km depth discontinuities).

This version of the software is a beta version, simplified compared with the one in the publication. It requires the use of the catalog of synthetic seismic records from mineral physics and travel-time tables at https://zenodo.org/record/5512035.

The software and catalog apply for:

A fixed mantle composition, which is a mechanical mixture of basalt and harzburgite with a fraction of basalt f=0.2.
A downsampled catalog of synthetic waveforms for event depths between 0 and 80 km by step of 10 km (enough for processing SS and PP precursors).
Adiabatic temperature gradients with potential temperature Tpot between 1200 and 2100 K by step of 100 K.

This version will allow any user to generate synthetic waveforms for any moment tensor, and events within the pre-defined depth interval. For more advanced applications such as changing mantle composition, or generating waveforms for deeper earthquakes, please contact Benoit Tauzin (benoit.tauzin@univ-lyon1.fr) and Lauren Waszek (lauren.waszek@jcu.edu.au).

How to cite this material?

Any use of the datasets or software must refer to:

The reference paper: Waszek L., Tauzin B., Schmerr N., Ballmer M., Afonso J.C. A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves. Nature Geoscience. 2021.

Software: Tauzin, Benoit, & Waszek, Lauren. (2021). NoLiMit MATLAB package v1.0. Non-Linear Bayesian partition Modeling of the Earth's Mantle Transition zone (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5512805

Datasets: Tauzin, Benoit, Waszek, Lauren, & Afonso, Juan Carlos. (2021). Catalog of synthetic seismic records from mineral physics and travel-time tables from Waszek et al., 2021, Nature Geoscience (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5512035