Belt-parallel mantle flow beneath a halted continental collision: The Western Alps

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 429-438

  Barruol, Guilhem ^a   Bonnin, Mickael ^a   Pedersen, Helle ^b   Bokelmann, Götz H R ^a   Tiberi, Christel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Seismic anisotropy; SKS splitting; Upper mantle; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SKS SPLITTING; UPPER MANTLE; WESTERN ALPS;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION; MINERALS; PARALLEL FLOW; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ANISOTROPY;

BELT; BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

ALPS; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 79251596472     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.040     Document Type: Article

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