Three-dimensional shear-wave splitting tomography in the Parkfield, California, region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Haijiang ^a,b   Liu, Yunfeng ^a   Thurber, Clifford ^a   Roecker, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKS; SHEAR WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING DELAY; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANISOTROPY DISTRIBUTION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPY; FAULT ZONE; IMAGING METHOD; MICROCRACK; POLARIZATION; RAY TRACING; S-WAVE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39549117811     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031951     Document Type: Article

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