Radial anisotropy in the European mantle: Tomographic studies explored in terms of mantle flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Schaefer, J F ^a   Boschi, L ^a,b   Becker, T W ^c   Kissling, E ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA COVERAGE; FLOW MODEL; GLOBAL SCALE; MANTLE FLOW; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; OCEANIC BASIN; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; SCALE LENGTH; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC MODEL; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY;

AZIMUTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW MODELING; MANTLE; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 80051783722     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049687     Document Type: Article

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