Modeling of lower mantle seismic anisotropy beneath subduction zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Nippress, S E J ^a   Kusznir, N J ^a   Kendall, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1213 Geodesy and Gravity: Earth's interior dynamics (8115, 8120); 7207 Seismology: Core and mantle; 8168 Tectonophysics: Stresses general

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

MANTLE DYNAMICS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 11044232391     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020701     Document Type: Article

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