Anisotropy and mantle flow in the Chile-Argentina subduction zone from shear wave splitting analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Anderson, Megan L ^a   Zandt, George ^a   Triep, Enrique ^b   Fouch, Matthew ^c   Beck, Susan ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

7203 Seismology: Body wave propagation; 7218 Seismology: Lithosphere and upper mantle; 8123 Tectonophysics: Dynamics, seismotectonics; 8150 Tectonophysics: Plate boundary General (3040); 9360 Information Related to Geographic Region: South America

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE FLOW; RETROGRADE MOTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

SHEAR WAVES;

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ARGENTINA; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16644363095     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020906     Document Type: Article

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