Mantle flow and lithosphere-asthenosphere coupling beneath the southwestern edge of the North American craton: Constraints from shear-wave splitting measurements

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 402, Issue C, 2014, Pages 209-220

  Refayee, Hesham A ^a   Yang, Bin B ^a   Liu, Kelly H ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Mantle flow; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; GEODYNAMIC MODELING; MANTLE FLOW; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84926278129     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.031     Document Type: Article

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