Mantle wedge anisotropy in Southern Tyrrhenian Subduction Zone (Italy), from receiver function analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 462, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 35-48

  Piana Agostinetti, Nicola ^a,b   Park, Jeffrey ^a,b   Lucente, Francesco Pio ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Mantle processes; Seismic anisotropy; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CODA; MANTLE PROCESS; MOHO; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56449090963     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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