The influence of deformation history on the interpretation of seismic anisotropy

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Skemer, Philip ^a   Warren, Jessica M ^b   Hirth, Greg ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mantle; olivine; seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

DEFORMATION HISTORY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; MANTLE; MICROPHYSICS; PHYSIOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR DIRECTION; SHEAR ZONE; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS; WIDE SPECTRUM;

OLIVINE;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LABORATORY METHOD; LATTICE DYNAMICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OLIVINE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; SHEAR ZONE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84858631137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003988     Document Type: Article

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