Lithospheric and asthenospheric contributions to shear-wave splitting observations in the southeastern United States

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 341-344, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-138

  Wagner, Lara S ^a   Long, Maureen D ^b   Johnston, Mignon D ^c   Benoit, Margaret H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic anomalies; Mantle flow; Shear wave splitting; Southern Appalachians; Terrane boundaries

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; APPALACHIANS; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; FLORIDA; GENERAL PATTERNS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC FABRICS; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; NORTH AMERICAN; PARALLEL SPLITTING; PHYSICS PROJECT; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; SPLITTING PATTERNS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ANISOTROPY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; BROADBAND DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE SPLITTING;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84863459090     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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