Mantle flow in the South Sandwich subduction environment from source-side shear wave splitting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Müller, Christian ^a,b   Bayer, Bettina ^b   Eckstaller, Alfons ^b   Miller, Heinrich ^b  

^a FIELAX Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung GmbH   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; GEOCHEMISTRY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES;

EARTH'S UPPER MANTLE; SOURCE-SIDE SPLITTING ANALYSIS; SUB-SLAB MANTLE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAPH; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; WAVE SPLITTING;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS;

EID: 41849091152     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032411     Document Type: Article

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