Seismic anisotropy beneath the continents: Probing the depths of geology

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue , 1996, Pages 385-432

  Silver, Paul G ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL REGION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; MANTLE DEFORMATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 0030482764     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.24.1.385     Document Type: Article

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