Effects of seismic anisotropy on P-velocity tomography of the Baltic Shield

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 600-612

  Eken, Tuna ^a,b   Plomerová, Jaroslava ^b   Vecsey, Luděk ^b   Babuška, Vladislav ^b   Roberts, Roland ^a   Shomali, Hossein ^a   Bodvarsson, R ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Body waves; Cratons; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL MANTLE; CRATONS; INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; JOINT INVERSION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW-VELOCITY; P-VELOCITY; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY PERTURBATION;

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; ANISOTROPY; BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; HETEROGENEITY; ISOTROPY; P-WAVE; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SH-WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

BALTIC SHIELD;

EID: 84855418646     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05280.x     Document Type: Article

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