How robust is isotropic delay time tomography for anisotropic mantle?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-512

  Sobolev, Stephan V ^c   Grésillaud, Alain ^a,b   Cara, Michel ^b,d  

^a Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre   (France)

^b CGG   (France)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION; ANISOTROPY; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

ANISOTROPIC BODIES; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; OLIVINE CRYSTALS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; P-WAVE VELOCITY IMAGES; PURE SHEAR DEFORMATIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC ARTIFACTS; ANISOTROPIC MANTLE; DIPPING OLIVINE; FOSSIL SUBDUCTION ZONES; ISOTROPIC DELAY TIME TOMOGRAPHY; RIFT ZONE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041035514     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900206     Document Type: Article

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