Upper mantle deformation and seismic anisotropy in continental rifts

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-117

  Vauchez, Alain ^a   Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Barruol, Guilhem ^a   Maumus, Jerôme ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MANTLE; RIFTING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 0033997873     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(00)00019-3     Document Type: Article

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