Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the northwestern Pacific: Evidence from PcS, ScS, SKS, and SKKS phases

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  He, Xiaobo ^a   Long, Maureen D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D; lattice preferred orientation; lower mantle; seismic anisotropy; shape preferred orientation; shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

D REGION; DEUTERIUM; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOWER MANTLE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHAPE PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

ANISOTROPY;

DEFORMATION; LOWER MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE SPLITTING;

KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84055191512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003779     Document Type: Article

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