Azimuthal anisotropy beneath southern Africa from very broad-band surface-wave dispersion measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-174

  Adam, Joanne M C ^a,b   Lebedev, Sergei ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Africa; Cratons; Seismic anisotropy; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARCHEAN; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BLOCK BOUNDARIES; BROAD BANDS; CRATONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSION CURVES; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FREE OSCILLATION; JACK-KNIFE METHOD; LOVE-WAVE; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MULTIMODES; PLATE MOTIONS; RAYLEIGH; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC SURFACE WAVE; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRONG ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; SURFACE WAVE MEASUREMENT; TELESEISMIC; UPPER CRUST; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

DEFORMATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); GEODYNAMICS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; AZIMUTH; BODY WAVE; CRATON; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; PHASE VELOCITY; PLATE MOTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER CRUST; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE SPLITTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

KAAPVAAL CRATON; LIMPOPO BELT;

EID: 84866423733     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05583.x     Document Type: Article

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