Shear-wave splitting in the Rio Grande Rift

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19.2337s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, no. 23, p. 2337-2340.

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Geological Faults, S Waves, Seismic Waves, Tectonics, Earth Mantle, Geochronology, Rio Grande (North America), Strain Distribution, Waveforms

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Lag times and fast directions associated with SKS shear-wave splitting are determined for six digital stations in the Rio Grande Rift (RGR). The mean fast direction for three stations in the central RGR is about 45 deg oblique to the axis of the RGR. The pattern of the fast directions along the RGR gives evidence for a rising asthenosphere beneath the central to southern RGR and indicates that thermally driven small-scale convection may be faster for flow parallel to the rift than perpendicular to it.

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