Azimuthal anisotropy of Rayleigh waves in East Asia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Huang, Zhongxian ^a   Peng, Yanju ^a   Luo, Yan ^a   Zheng, Yuejun ^a   Su, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ANISOTROPY PATTERNS; LITHOSPHERES; RAYLEIGH WAVES;

SURFACE WAVES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 7044241386     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020399     Document Type: Article

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