Upper mantle shear and compressional velocity structure of the central US craton: Shear wave low-velocity zone and anisotropy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 383-386

  Rodgers, A ^a   Bhattacharyya, J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

(CENTRAL); UNITED STATES;

ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITIES; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVES; TRANSVERSE COMPONENTS; UPPER-MANTLE VELOCITIES; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

SHEAR FLOW; SEISMIC WAVES;

SHEAR WAVE LOW VELOCITY ZONE; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; UPPER MANTLE REFRACTED SHEAR WAVES;

EID: 0035862115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012112     Document Type: Article

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