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Shear wave splitting

Shear wave splitting, also called seismic birefringence, is the phenomenon that occurs when a polarized shear wave enters an anisotropic medium (Fig… 
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2012
2012
Measuring Shear Wave Splitting Using the Silver and Chan Method
Seismic shear waves emitted by earthquakes can be modelled as plane (transverse) waves. When entering an anisotropic medium they… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Imaging fractures and sedimentary fabrics using shear wave splitting measurements made on passive seismic data
SUMMARY The ability to detect aligned fractures using seismic anisotropy provides a valuable tool for exploiting hydrocarbon… 
2009
2009
Stress aligned cracks in the upper crust of the Val d'Agri region as revealed by shear wave splitting
SUMMARY Shear wave splitting is measured at 19 seismic stations of a temporary network deployed in the Val d’Agri area to record… 
2006
2006
Lithospheric and sublithospheric anisotropy beneath central-southeastern Brazil constrained by long period magnetotelluric data
2005
2005
Comment on "systematic analysis of shear-wave splitting in the aftershock zone of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: Shallow crustal anisotropy and lack of precursory changes, by Yungfeng Liu, Ta…
Liu et al. (2004) systematically analyze the parameters of shear-wave splitting before and after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in… 
2002
2002
Continental mantle seismic anisotropy: a new look at the Twin Sisters massif
1994
1994
Interpreting data matrix asymmetry in near-offset, shear-wave VSP data
Poor experimental control in shear‐wave VSPs may contribute to unreliable estimates of shear‐wave splitting and possible… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
VELOCITY AND ATTENUATION ANISOTROPY CAUSED BY MICROCRACKS AND MACROFRACTURES IN A MULTIAZIMUTH REVERSE VSP
Previous analyses of crosshole survey (CHS) and reverse vertical seismic profile (RVSP) data sets at the Conoco Borehole Test… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Crustal anisotropy from local observations of shear-wave splitting in West Bohemia, Czech Republic
The results of a systematic study of shear-wave splitting, observed in the three-component digital seismograms of about 400… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Inversion for subsurface anisotropy using estimates of shear-wave splitting
SUMMARY Inversion of the parameters characterizing shear-wave splitting (polarizations, time delays, and differential attenuation… 
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