Surface wave dispersion across Tibet: Direct evidence for radial anisotropy in the crust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Duret, F ^a   Shapiro, N M ^a   Cao, Z ^b   Levin, V ^c   Molnar, P ^d   Roecker, S ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

CRUSTAL FLOW; DATA SETS; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; LOVE WAVE; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH; S-WAVES; SICHUAN; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; VELOCITY MODEL;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; CRUST; DATA SET; DISPERSION; ISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 77956075173     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043811     Document Type: Article

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