Length scales, patterns and origin of azimuthal seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle as mapped by Rayleigh waves
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Thorsten W. Becker,1 Göran Ekström,2 Lapo Boschi3 and John H. Woodhouse4 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles CA 90089-0740, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964, USA 3Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland 4Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
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