Texture of mantle lithosphere along the Dead Sea Rift: Recently imposed or inherited?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 174-189

  Levin, Vadim ^a   Henza, Alissa ^a   Park, Jeffrey ^b   Rodgers, Arthur ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy, Lithosphere, Upper mantle, Body waves

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; DEFORMATION; ROCKS; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

BODY WAVES; LITHOSPHERE; UPPER MANTLE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BIREFRINGENCE; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33748496234     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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