Shear wave splitting along a nascent plate boundary: the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1201-1213

  Berk Biryol, C ^a   Zandt, George ^a   Beck, Susan L ^a   Ozacar, A Arda ^b   Adiyaman, Hande E ^a   Gans, Christine R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Mantle processes; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; EURASIAN PLATE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TRANSFORM FAULT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 77954080080     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04576.x     Document Type: Article

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