Anisotropy in the oceanic lithosphere from the study of local intraplate earthquakes on the west flank of the southern East Pacific Rise: Shear wave splitting and waveform modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B5, 1999, Pages 10695-10717

  Hung, Shu Huei ^a,b   Forsyth, Donald W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE SPLITTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033542006     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900046     Document Type: Article

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