Layered azimuthal anisotropy of Rayleigh wave phase velocities in the European Alpine lithosphere inferred from ambient noise

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Fry, Bill ^a,b   Deschamps, Frédéric ^b   Kissling, Edi ^b   Stehly, Laurent ^c,d   Giardini, Domenico ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine crust; Anisotropy; Crustal thickening; Seismic tomography; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CRUST; AMBIENT NOISE; ANISOTROPIC PHASE; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CENTRAL ALPS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; FIRST-ORDER; ISOTROPIC SURFACES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; TWO LAYERS; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

EARTHQUAKES; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

ANISOTROPY;

ALGORITHM; AMBIENT NOISE; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKENING; LITHOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 77956010942     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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