Shear wave splitting in SE Brazil: An effect of active or fossil upper mantle flow, or both?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 79-95

  Heintz, Maggy ^a   Vauchez, Alain ^a   Assumpçao, Marcelo ^b   Barruol, Guilhem ^a   Egydio Silva, Marcos ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crust mantle coupling; Lithospheric scale faults; Orogenic lithosphere; SE Brazil; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE SPLITTING;

(SOUTHEAST); BRAZIL;

EID: 0038545379     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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