Shear wave splitting across the Ailao Shan-Red River fault zone, SW China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Zhouchuan ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^b   Mi, Ning ^a   Liu, Shaowen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

FAULT ZONE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BROADBAND DATA; FAULT ZONE; GPS; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC METHOD; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

AILAO SHAN-RED RIVER SHEAR ZONE; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

EID: 37349105644     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031236     Document Type: Article

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