Anisotropy of the Indian continental lithospheric mantle

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1341-1360

  Heintz, Maggy ^a   Kumar, V Pavan ^b   Gaur, Vinod K ^c,d   Priestley, Keith ^a   Rai, Shyam S ^b   Prakasam, K Surya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^d CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Body waves; Continental tectonics: compressional; Plate motions; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SUTURE ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70450207429     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04395.x     Document Type: Article

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