European mantle lithosphere assembled from rigid microplates with inherited seismic anisotropy

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 264-280

  Babuška, Vladislav ^a   Plomerová, Jaroslava ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Assembly of microplates; European mantle lithosphere; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MICROPLATES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

SEISMOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PROCESS; MICROPLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUTURE ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33748481746     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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