Short-scale variations of shear-wave splitting across the Dead Sea basin: Evidence for the effects of sedimentary fill

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kaviani, Ayoub ^a   Rmpker, Georg ^a   Weber, Michael ^b   Asch, Güenter ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; DEAD SEA; DELAY TIME; LATERAL VARIATIONS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TRANSFORM FAULT; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM MODELING;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARRAY; BASIN FILL; FAULT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 79952174255     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046464     Document Type: Article

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