Shear wave anisotropy beneath the Taiwan orogen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 177-192

  Rau, Ruey Juin ^a,b   Liang, Wen Tzong ^a,b   Kao, Honn ^a,b   Huang, Bor Shouh ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Plate collision; S waves; Subduction; Taiwan; Wave splitting

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; OROGENIC BELT; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0034127919     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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