A review of the current understanding of seismic shear-wave splitting in the Earth's crust and common fallacies in interpretation

Wave Motion

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 675-722

  Crampin, Stuart ^a,b,c   Peacock, Sheila ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fallacies in interpretation; New Geophysics; New understanding of fluid rock deformation; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; MICROCRACKS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

FLUID-SATURATED MICROCRACKS; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING;

SHEAR WAVES;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; MICROCRACKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

CRUST; DATA INTERPRETATION; MICROCRACK; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 44649179908     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2008.01.003     Document Type: Review

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