Modelling shear wave splitting observations from Wellington, New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 853-864

  Marson Pidgeon, Katrina ^a   Savage, Martha K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Inversion; Layered media; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic modelling; Shear wave splitting; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; LAYERED MEDIUM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE SPLITTING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

EID: 2542637914     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02274.x     Document Type: Article

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