Shear wave splitting beneath the central Tien Shan and tectonic implications

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Li, Aibing ^a   Chen, Chizheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COHERENT DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SURFACE VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KYRGYZSTAN; TARIM BASIN; TIEN SHAN; WEST ASIA; XINJIANG UYGUR; YSYK-KOL;

EID: 34447554945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027717     Document Type: Article

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