Shear-wave splitting and mantle flow beneath the Colorado Plateau and its boundary with the Great Basin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2526-2532

  Wang, Xinling ^a   Ni, James F ^a   Aster, Richard ^b   Sandvol, Eric ^c   Wilson, David ^d   Sine, Christopher ^d   Grand, Stephen P ^d   Baldridge, W Scott ^e  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS; SHEAR WAVES;

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; ANISOTROPIC; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOWS; CIRCULAR PATTERNS; CLOCKWISE; COLORADO PLATEAUX; CONSISTENT; DELAY TIMES; EASTERN EDGES; FIRST-ORDER; FLOW PROCESSES; GREAT BASINS; MANTLE FLOWS; PLATE MOTIONS; RIO GRANDE RIFTS; SEISMIC; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING; TOROIDAL FLOWS; UPPERMOST MANTLES; VERTICAL FLOWS; VOLCANIC FIELDS; WAVE VELOCITIES;

ANISOTROPY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE VELOCITY;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE RIFT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54949091142     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080107     Document Type: Article

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