Initial results from the ICEMELT experiment: Body-wave delay times and shear-wave splitting across Iceland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 459-462

  Bjarnason, Ingi Th ^a,c   Wolfe, Cecily J ^a   Solomon, Scan C ^a   Gudmundson, Gunnar ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; HOT SPOT; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

ICELAND;

ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0029775670     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00420     Document Type: Article

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