Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan from shear wave splitting

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 206-222

  Long, Maureen D ^a   van der Hilst, Rob D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Japan; S wave splitting; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; POLARIZATION; SHEAR WAVES;

BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SLAB MORPHOLOGY; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS;

TECTONICS;

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 21844479023     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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