Anisotropy and flow in pacific subduction zone back-arcs

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 151, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 463-475

  Fischer, Karen M ^a   Fouch, Matthew J ^a   Wiens, Douglas A ^b   Boettcher, Margaret S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Mantle flow; Shear wave splitting; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0031869699     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050123     Document Type: Article

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