Shear wave splitting around the northern Atlantic: Frozen Pangaean lithospheric anisotropy?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 279, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 135-148

  Barruol, G ^a   Helffrich, G ^b   Vauchez, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Asthenospheric flow; Hercynian belt; Lithospheric deformation; Pangea; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; HERCYNIAN BELT; LITHOSPHERE; PANGEA; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 0031413161     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00126-1     Document Type: Article

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