Anisotropy beneath an active collision orogen of Taiwan: Results from across islands array observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Huang, Bor Shouh ^a   Huang, Win Gee ^a   Liang, Wen Tzong ^a   Rau, Ruey Juin ^b   Hirata, Naoshi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORMATION; POLARIZATION; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

ACTIVE COLLISION OROGEN; SURFACE GEOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; OROGENY; PARTICLE MOTION; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548016290     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027844     Document Type: Article

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