Anisotropic rayleigh-wave tomography of Ireland's crust: Implications for crustal accretion and evolution within the caledonian orogen

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Polat, G ^a,b   Lebedev, S ^a   Readman, P W ^a   O'Reilly, B M ^a   Hauser, F ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CENOZOIC MAGMATISM; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CRUSTAL ROCKS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EURASIAN PLATES; IRELAND; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISMS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALAEOZOIC; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STRUCTURAL TRENDS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; ANISOTROPY; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ISOTROPY; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PANGAEA; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SUTURE ZONE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IRELAND;

EID: 84857620639     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051014     Document Type: Article

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