Shear wave splitting and mantle flow beneath LA RISTRA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Gök, Rengin ^a   Ni, James F ^a   West, Michael ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Wilson, David ^c   Aster, Richard ^c   Baldridge, W Scott ^d   Grand, Stephen ^e   Gao, Wei ^e   Tillmann, Frederik ^f   Semken, Steve ^g  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Dine College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS;

GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE SPLITTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0347413678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016616     Document Type: Article

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