Shear-wave splitting beneath the southwestern Kurile arc and northeastern Japan arc: A new insight into mantle return flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Shimizu, Jumpei ^a   Hori, Shuichiro ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; TECTONICS;

MANTLE RETURN FLOW; SUBDUCTED PACIFIC PLATE;

SHEAR WAVES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE; MANTLE PROCESS; OLIVINE; PLATE TECTONICS; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 33646338192     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025053     Document Type: Article

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