Shear wave splitting observations in the Archean craton of western superior

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2669-2672

  Kay, I ^a   Sol, S ^c   Kendall, J M ^b   Thomson, C ^c   White, D ^a   Asudeh, I ^a   Roberts, B ^a   Francis, D ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS; ANISOTROPY; SHEAR FLOW;

MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; CANADIAN SHIELDS; LATERAL STRUCTURES; SOURCE DIRECTIONS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TECTONIC HISTORY; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

CANADA; SUPERIOR PROVINCE;

EID: 0033391652     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010493     Document Type: Article

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