Upper-mantle flow beneath French Polynesia from shear wave splitting
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Fabrice R. Fontaine,1,2 Guilhem Barruol,1,3 Andréa Tommasi3 and Götz H. R. Bokelmann3 1Laboratoire Terre-Océan, Université de Polynésie française, BP 6570, 98702 Faaa, Tahiti, Polynésie française 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Building 61, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] 3Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Université Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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