Constraints on subduction geodynamics from seismic anisotropy

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-112

  Long, Maureen D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mantle dynamics; mantle flow; seismic anisotropy; shear wave splitting; subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DYNAMICS; MINERALS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MANTLE DYNAMICS; MANTLE FLOW; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

GEODYNAMICS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE PROCESS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOSITY; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84879240178     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rog.20008     Document Type: Article

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