Upper-mantle flow beneath French Polynesia from shear wave splitting

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1262-1288

  Fontaine, Fabrice R ^a,b   Barruol, Guilhem ^a,c   Tommasi, Andréa ^c   Bokelmann, Götz H R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

French polynesia; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; FRACTURE ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PACIFIC PLATE; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMICITY; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOUS FLOW; WAVE SPLITTING;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 34548119218     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03475.x     Document Type: Article

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