Shear-wave splitting in northeast Venezuela, Trinidad, and the eastern Caribbean

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 251-275

  Russo, R M ^a,b   Silver, P G ^a   Franke, M ^c   Ambeh, W B ^d   James, D E ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC MANTLE FLOW; PLATE BOUNDARY DEFORMATION; PLATE MOTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

CARIBBEAN; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TRINIDAD; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0029751862     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(95)03128-6     Document Type: Article

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