Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike-slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1020-1040

  Zietlow, Daniel W ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a   Molnar, Peter H ^a   Savage, Martha K ^b   Hirth, Greg ^c   Collins, John A ^d   Hager, Bradford H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Both thin viscous sheet and asthenospheric models match observed anisotropy; NZ; Shear wave splitting measurements are made on and offshore south island; Strong anisotropy spans a zone 100 200 km on each side of alpine fault

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84899697158     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010676     Document Type: Article

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