Shear-wave splitting above the subducting Juan de Fuca Plate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 941-944

  Cassidy, John F ^a,c   Bostock, Michael G ^b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; POLARIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; TECTONICS; TIME DELAY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELASTIC WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRESSES;

ANISOTROPY MODELING; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY;

SHEAR WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; EXTENSIVE DILATANCY ANISOTROPY MODEL; FAST POLARIZATION DIRECTION; JUAN DE FUCA PLATE; SHEAR WAVE ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION; WEAK COUPLING THEORY;

ANISOTROPY; CONTINENTAL CRUST; JUAN DE FUCA PLATE; S-WAVE SPLITTING; S-WAVES; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; STRESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WEAK COUPLING;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND; PACIFIC, JUAN DE FUCA PLATE;

EID: 0029666562     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00976     Document Type: Article

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