A comparison of GPS solutions for strain and SKS fast directions: Implications for modes of shear in the mantle of a plate boundary zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 345-348, Issue , 2012, Pages 117-125

  Houlie N ^a   Stern, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

GPS; Mantle deformation; Seismology; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

FAULT SYSTEM; GPS DATA; IRROTATIONAL; MANTLE DEFORMATION; NEW ZEALAND; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SIMPLE SHEAR; SOUTH ISLAND; TIME-SCALES; TWO DOMAINS; VERTICAL COMPONENT; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFORMATION; GPS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; UPLIFT; WAVE SPLITTING;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84864067314     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.029     Document Type: Article

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