Tag Archives: LLSVP

The Pacific Doughboy and the Core

Posted on April 22, 2014 by

Here at the Trunkmonkey Research Institute we’ve been possessed of late by the Doughboys. This representation is not really very good. It is a plate carree projection extruded as a box. Trouble is, when you bend it round like our … Continue reading →

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Doughboys

Posted on April 13, 2014 by

I have seen the following attributed to Ritsema and van Heist but have not found it in any of their papers. People with no sense of verbal aesthetics have named the red things LLSVP’s for Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces. Sometimes they … Continue reading →

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