Mantle dynamics beneath the Gibraltar Are (western Mediterranean) from shear-wave splitting measurements on a dense seismic array

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Diaz, J ^a   Gallart, J ^a   Villasenor A ^a   Mancilla, F ^b   Pazos, A ^c   Cordoba D ^d   Pulgar, J A ^e   Ibarra, P ^f   Harnafi, M ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Real Observatorio de la Armada   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^g Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPIC CONSTRAINTS; BROAD BANDS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DENSE NETWORK; EURASIA; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; GIBRALTAR ARC; GIBRALTARS; HIGH VELOCITY; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MIOCENE; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

SHEAR WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DELAMINATION; EOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE PROCESS; MIOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

GIBRALTAR; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MOROCCO;

EID: 77957598918     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044201     Document Type: Article

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