Subduction of the Philippine Sea slab in view of P-wave anisotropy

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 83-96

  Ishise, Motoko ^a   Oda, Hitoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chugoku and Shikoku districts; P wave azimuthal anisotropy; Philippine Sea slab; Slab anisotropy; Southwest Japan; Three dimensional anisotropic velocity structure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEXAGONAL-SYMMETRY AXIS; P-WAVE ANISOTROPY; SLAB ANISOTROPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANISOTROPIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SHIKOKU;

EID: 39049145123     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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