Seismic anisotropy in ocean basins: Resistive drag of the sublithospheric mantle?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 2991-2994

  Tommasi, Andréa ^a,b   Vauchez, Alain ^a,b   Russo, Raymond ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; MECHANICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRAIN;

HORIZONTAL SHEAR; INTRINSIC ANISOTROPY; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

STRAIN RATE; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBLITHOSPHERIC MANTLE;

ASTHENOSPHERIC STRAIN; BASINS; MANTLE; OCEAN BASIN; PLATE MOTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030265250     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02891     Document Type: Article

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