Shear-wave splitting observations at the regions of northern Baja California and southern Basin and range in Mexico

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Obrebski, Mathias ^a   Castro, Raul R ^a   Valenzuela, Raul W ^b   van Benthem, Steven ^b,c   Rebollar, Cecilio J ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

ANISOTROPIC PATTERN; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING OBSERVATION; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASIN; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33646345348     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024720     Document Type: Article

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