Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the African IRIS and geoscope stations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 549-561

  Barruol, G ^a   Ismail, W B ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Asthenosphere; Lithosphere deformation; Mantle; Shear wave splitting; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0034895308     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0956-540X.2001.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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