A uniform database of teleseismic shear wave splitting measurements for the western and central United States

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2075-2085

  Liu, Kelly H ^a   Elsheikh, Ahmed ^a   Lemnifi, Awad ^a   Purevsuren, Uranbaigal ^a   Ray, Melissa ^a   Refayee, Hesham ^a,b   Yang, Bin B ^a   Yu, Youqiang ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DGB Earth Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

seismic anisotropy; shear wave splitting; western and central United States

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PEOPLE MOVERS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVES; TRANSVERSE COMPONENTS; WESTERN AND CENTRAL UNITED STATES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DATABASE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OROGENY; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902466528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005267     Document Type: Article

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