Shear-wave splitting observations across southwest Ireland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Do, V C ^a   Readman, P W ^a   O'Reilly, B M ^a   Landes, M ^b  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES;

FAST-POLARISATION DIRECTION; IRISH SEISMOLOGICAL LITHOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT (ISLE); LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING;

SEISMOLOGY;

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645809363     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024496     Document Type: Article

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