Crustal stress patterns: Analysis of Ps splitting for seismic anisotropy

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 911-915

  Rai, Abhishek ^a   Rai, S S ^b   Gaur, V K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Crustal anisotropy; Indian shield; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649118137     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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