A Tertiary asthenospheric flow beneath the southern French Massif Central indicated by upper mantle seismic anisotropy and related to the west Mediterranean extension

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-47

  Barruol, Guilhem ^a,c   Granet, Michel ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b France and Karlsruher Institut für Technologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Asthenosphere; Central Massif; Extension; S waves; Tertiary; Wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; TERTIARY; UPPER MANTLE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0037200406     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00752-5     Document Type: Article

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