Seismic anisotropy beneath the Northern Apennines (Italy): Mantle flow or lithosphere fabric?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 157-170

  Plomerova J ^a   Margheriti, L ^b   Park, J ^c   Babuska V ^a   Pondrelli, S ^b   Vecsey, L ^a   Piccinini, D ^b   Levin, V ^d   Baccheschi, P ^b   Salimbeni, S ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

continental dynamics; Northern Apennines; seismic anisotropy; SKS birefringence

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NETWORK; SEISMOGRAPHIC STATION;

LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746810158     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.023     Document Type: Article

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