Seismic anisotropy beneath east Greenland revealed by shear wave splitting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Ucisik, Nur ^a,b   Gudmundsson, Ólafur ^a,b   Priestley, Keith ^c   Larsen, Tine B ^d  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COASTAL ZONES; POLARIZATION; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

LITHOSPHERE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TECTONIC FABRICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 22944461092     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021875     Document Type: Article

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