Anisotropic structures of the upper mantle beneath the northern Philippine Sea region from Rayleigh and Love wave tomography

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 33-43

  Isse, Takehi ^a   Shiobara, Hajime ^a   Montagner, J P ^b   Sugioka, Hiroko ^c   Ito, Aki ^c   Shito, Azusa ^c   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^a   Yoshizawa, Kazunori ^d   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Ocean bottom seismometer; Philippine Sea; Surface wave tomography; Upper mantle structure

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BROADBAND SEISMOMETERS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; ISLAND ARC; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOVE WAVE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC PLATES; PAST AND PRESENT; PHILIPPINE SEA; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SINGLE PLATES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WATER WAVES;

BROADBAND DATA; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ISOTROPY; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE PROCESS; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SHIKOKU; WEST PHILIPPINE BASIN;

EID: 78649449694     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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