Frequency-dependent shear wave splitting beneath the Japan and Izu-Bonin subduction zones

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 181, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 141-154

  Wirth, Erin ^a   Long, Maureen D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Japan; Mantle wedge; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting; Subduction dynamics

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE WEDGE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; S-WAVES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SLAB MORPHOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPLITTING PATTERNS; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TELESEISMIC; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FREQUENCY BANDS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

SHEAR FLOW;

BROADBAND DATA; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MANTLE PROCESS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

IZU-BONIN ARC; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77954817368     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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