Seismic anisotropy associated with continental lithosphere accretion beneath the CANOE array, Northwestern Canada

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 887-890

  Courtier, Anna M ^a   Gaherty, James B ^b   Revenaugh, Justin ^c   Bostock, Michael G ^d   Garnero, Edward J ^e  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION FRONT; HOT SPOT; LENGTH SCALE; LITHOSPHERIC; NORTH AMERICAN; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REFERENCE FRAME; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CORDILLERA; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CANADA;

EID: 77958105745     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31120.1     Document Type: Article

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