Olivine fabric transitions and shear wave anisotropy in the Ryukyu subduction system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 268-282

  Kneller, Erik A ^a   Long, Maureen D ^b   van Keken, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

non Newtonian rheology; olivine fabric; shear wave splitting; subduction zone modeling

Indexed keywords

NON-NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGY; OLIVINE FABRIC; SHEAR WAVE ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE MODELING;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

OLIVINE;

FOREARC BASIN; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THERMOMECHANICS; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

EID: 41549097269     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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