Stratified seismic anisotropy reveals past and present deformation beneath the East-central United States

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 489-498

  Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Lebedev, Sergei ^b,c   Meier, Thomas ^d   Trampert, Jeannot ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

lithospheric deformation; seismic anisotropy; shear wave anisotropy; stratified anisotropy; surface wave

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; ANISOTROPY PATTERNS; ARRAY ANALYSIS; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DATA SETS; DATA TYPING; DEPTH RANGE; DISPERSION CURVES; LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; LOWER CRUST; NORTH AMERICA; PLATE MOTIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTIONS; RAYLEIGH; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY; STRATIFIED ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE; UNITED STATES; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VELOCITY MAPS; WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; FABRICS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MAPS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRATIFICATION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52749083416     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.058     Document Type: Article

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