Upper mantle anisotropy in the New Zealand region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1497-1500

  Klosko, E R ^a,b   Wu, F T ^a,h   Anderson, H J ^c,d   Eberhart Phillips, D ^c,e   McEvilly, T V ^f   Audoine, E ^g   Savage, M K ^g   Gledhill, K R ^e  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Ministry of Research Science and Technology   (New Zealand)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR WAVES; ANISOTROPY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR FLOW;

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

ANISOTROPY; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVERAGE VALUES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL TRENDS; SURROUNDING REGIONS; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY;

EID: 0033562305     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900273     Document Type: Article

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