Shear wave splitting in a young continent-continent collision: An example from Eastern Turkey

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Sandvol, Eric ^a   Turkelli, Niyazi ^b   Zor, Ekrem ^b   Gok, Rengin ^b   Bekler, Tolga ^b   Gurbuz, Cemil ^b   Seber, Dogan ^c   Barazangi, Muawia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Cornell university ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LITHOLOGY; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COLLISION ZONES; LITHOSPHERE;

SHEAR WAVES;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMOTECTONICS; WAVE SPLITTING;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 1642617945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017390     Document Type: Article

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