Shallow anisotropy in the Mediterranean mantle from surface waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Marone, F ^a   van der Lee, S ^a   Giardini, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LATTICE-PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PATH-AVERAGE VELOCITY STRUCTURES; RAYLEIGH WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 18544393271     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018948     Document Type: Article

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