Seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics beneath China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 105-117

  Huang, Zhouchuan ^a,b   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Mi, Ning ^a   Xu, Mingjie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute plate motion; Anisotropy; Continent; India Asia collision; Shear wave splitting; Subduction of the Pacific plate

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; CONTINENT; INDIA-ASIA COLLISION; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION OF THE PACIFIC PLATE;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; OLIVINE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACTIVE FAULT; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION; EURASIAN PLATE; GEODYNAMICS; OROGENY; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHINA;

EID: 79955652169     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.038     Document Type: Article

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