Seismic evidence for stratification in composition and anisotropic fabric within the thick lithosphere of Kalahari Craton

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5393-5412

  Sodoudi, Forough ^a,b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Kind, Rainer ^a   Lebedev, Sergei ^c   Adam, Joanne M C ^d   Kästle, Emanuel ^e   Tilmann, Frederik ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

lithospheric layering; S receiver functions

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; METASOMATISED LITHOSPHERE; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY CONTRASTS;

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRATON; INFILTRATION; LINEAMENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY;

KALAHARI CRATON; LIMPOPO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84893335665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004955     Document Type: Article

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