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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 31, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020939
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Accurate interpretation of SKS shear-wave splitting observations requires inherently indeterminate depth information. Magnetotelluric electrical anisotropies are depth-constrained, and thereby offer possible resolution of the SKS conundrum. MT and teleseismic instruments, deployed across the Great Slave Lake shear zone, northern Canada, investigated lithospheric anisotropy and tested a hypothesis that seismic and electrical anisotropy obliquity can infer mantle strain shear-sense. Lithospheric mantle MT strike (N60degreesE) differs significantly from crustal MT strike (N30degreesE). SKS splitting vectors outside the shear zone exhibit single-layer anisotropy with fast axis parallel to upper-mantle MT strike and oblique to present-day plate motion (N135degreesW). Back-azimuth sensitivity at sites within the similar to30 km wide shear-zone imply more complex layering, with two-layer inversion yielding an upper layer of similar toN20degreesE and a lower layer of similar toN66degreesE. The MT data help to constrain the depth location of SKS anisotropy and, taken together, support a model of fossil lithospheric anisotropy.
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