Shear wave splitting in the Appalachians and the Urals: A case for multilayered anisotropy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B8, 1999, Pages 17975-17993

  Levin, Vadim ^a   Menke, William ^b   Park, Jeffrey ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE; S-WAVE;

APPALACHIANS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES; URALS;

EID: 17144433198     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900168     Document Type: Article

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