Deep structure and seismic anisotropy beneath the East Pacific Rise

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 259-272

  Gu, Yu J ^a,d   Lerner Lam, Arthur L ^b   Dziewonski, Adam M ^c   Ekström, Göran ^c  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Harvard University ^*  (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deep structure; East Pacific Rise; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

MID-OCEAN RIDGES; RHEOLOGICAL TRANSITION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 17044366514     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.019     Document Type: Article

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