Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the north Pacific from differential S-ScS splitting

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 829-838

  Wookey, James ^a   Kendall, J Michael ^a   Rümpker, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; D ; Lowermost mantle; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

EID: 20444466537     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02623.x     Document Type: Article

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