Teleseismic shear wave splitting and lithospheric anisotropy beneath and across the Altyn Tagh fault.

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3225-3228

  Herquel, Georges ^a   Tapponnier, Paul ^b   Wittlinger, Gérard ^a   Mei, Jiang ^c   Danian, Shi ^c  

^a Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre   (France)

^b IPG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; LITHOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DUCTILE SINISTRAL SHEAR; FAST POLARIZATION DIRECTION (FPD); LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

CHINA;

ALTYN TAGH FAULT; LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SINISTRAL SHEAR; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVES; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033226417     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005387     Document Type: Article

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