Numerical modelling of the upper-mantle anisotropy beneath a migrating strike-slip plate boundary: The San Andreas Fault system

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 436-458

  Bonnin, Mickaël ^a   Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Hassani, Riad ^b   Chevrot, Sébastien ^c   Wookey, James ^d   Barruol, Guilhem ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; North America; Rheology: mantle; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DEFORMATION FIELD; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; ELASTICITY TENSOR; FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT CODES; FORWARD MODELLING; FULL-WAVE APPROACH; GEOTHERMS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PLATE BOUNDARIES; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; RAY THEORY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHARP TRANSITION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SKS WAVE; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; SYNTHETIC APPROACH; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVES; THERMOMECHANICAL MODELLING; TRIPLE JUNCTION; TWO LAYER MODEL; UPPER MANTLE; VISCO-PLASTIC SELF-CONSISTENT;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GEODYNAMICS; OLIVINE; POLARIZATION; SHEAR WAVES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORWARD MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PYROXENE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THERMOMECHANICS; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867395431     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05650.x     Document Type: Article

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