Crustal anisotropy in the vicinity of the Alpine Fault Zone, South Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 579-583

  Okaya, David ^a   Christensen, Nikolas ^b   Stanley, Darrell ^b   Stern, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpine Fault Zone; Petrophysical measurements; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; P WAVE; PETROPHYSICAL DATA; S WAVE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, ALPINE FAULT;

EID: 0029512982     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514686     Document Type: Article

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