Upper and mid-mantle anisotropy beneath the Tonga slab

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Foley, Bradford J ^a   Long, Maureen D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC SOURCES; DELAY TIME; LOWER MANTLE; MINERAL PHYSICS; S-WAVES; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEODYNAMICS; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ZONE; SLAB; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

TONGA;

EID: 79251573915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046021     Document Type: Article

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