Constraints on subduction geodynamics from seismic anisotropy

MD Long - Reviews of Geophysics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Much progress has been made over the past several decades in delineating the structure of
subducting slabs, but several key aspects of their dynamics remain poorly constrained …

Crystal preferred orientations of olivine, orthopyroxene, serpentine, chlorite, and amphibole, and implications for seismic anisotropy in subduction zones: a review

H Jung - Geosciences Journal, 2017 - Springer
This study provides a comprehensive review of the crystal preferred orientation (CPO) of
olivine and orthopyroxene in the upper mantle, and of several hydrous minerals in the …

Mantle dynamics and seismic anisotropy

MD Long, TW Becker - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Observations of seismic anisotropy yield some of the most direct constraints available on
both past and present-day deformation in the Earth's mantle. Insight into the character of …

Shear wave splitting and mantle anisotropy: Measurements, interpretations, and new directions

MD Long, PG Silver - Surveys in Geophysics, 2009 - Springer
Measurements of the splitting or birefringence of seismic shear waves that have passed
through the Earth's mantle yield constraints on the strength and geometry of elastic …

Effect of water and stress on the lattice-preferred orientation of olivine

H Jung, I Katayama, Z Jiang, T Hiraga, SI Karato - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
The influence of water and stress on the lattice-preferred orientation (LPO) of olivine
aggregates was investigated through large strain, shear deformation experiments at high …

Evidence for mechanically coupled lithosphere in central Asia and resulting implications

CY Wang, LM Flesch, PG Silver, LJ Chang… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The recent dramatic increase in seismic anisotropy and surface global positioning system
(GPS) data for central Asia permits a comprehensive examination of the mantle's role in …

Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge

MA Jadamec, MI Billen - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
The direction of tectonic plate motion at the Earth's surface and the flow field of the mantle
inferred from seismic anisotropy are well correlated globally, suggesting large-scale …

[HTML][HTML] 南北构造带北段上地幔各向异性特征

常利军, 丁志峰, 王椿镛 - 地球物理学报, 2016 - html.rhhz.net
对布设在南北构造带北段的中国地震科学探测台阵项目二期674 个宽频带流动台站和鄂尔多斯
台阵21 个宽频带流动台站记录的远震XKS (SKS, SKKS 和PKS) 波形资料作偏振分析 …

Vertical coherence of deformation in lithosphere in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau using GPS and shear-wave splitting data

L Chang, Z Ding, C Wang, LM Flesch - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
We present 817 new SKS/SKKS shear-wave splitting observations to infer the mantle
deformation field in the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau. The obvious pattern of dense …

Upper mantle structure of eastern Asia from multimode surface waveform tomography

K Priestley, E Debayle, D McKenzie… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new three‐dimensional Sv wave speed and azimuthal anisotropy model for
the upper mantle of eastern Asia constrained by the analysis of more than 17,000 vertical …