Three-dimensional structure of P-wave anisotropy in the presence of small-scale convection in the mantle wedge

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Morishige, M ^a   Honda, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

mantle convection; seismic anisotropy; small scale convection; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D STRUCTURE; CRITICAL INFORMATION; FAST AXIS; HEXAGONAL SYMMETRY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE WEDGE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PLATE MOTIONS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; P-WAVE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 83455205719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003866     Document Type: Article

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