Source-side shear wave splitting and upper mantle flow in the Romanian Carpathians and surroundings

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 205-216

  Russo, R M ^a   Mocanu, V I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Carpathians; East European Platform; shear wave splitting; Transylvanian Basin; upper mantle anisotropy; Vrancea

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIANS; EAST EUROPEAN PLATFORM; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY; VRANCEA;

ANISOTROPY; CAVITY RESONATORS; FABRICS; SEISMOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SHEAR WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN; VRANCEA;

EID: 70349400727     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.028     Document Type: Article

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