Relationship between crustal finite strain and seismic anisotropy in the mantle, Pacific-Australia plate boundary zone, South Island, New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 106-116

  Little, Timothy A ^a   Savage, Martha K ^a   Tikoff, Basil ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental deformation; Mantle; New Zealand; Shear wave splitting; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE SPLITTING;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0036787065     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01730.x     Document Type: Article

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