Mantle deformation beneath southern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2493-2496

  Silver, Paul G ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a   Liu, Kelly H ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; POLARIZATION; SHALE;

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; DELAY TIME; GEOLOGIC CONTROL; MANTLE DEFORMATION; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

GEOLOGIC CONTROL;

CRATON; DEFORMATION; MANTLE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035392312     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012696     Document Type: Article

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