A new scheme for fast calculation of seismic traveltimes and ray paths in heterogeneous media

Acta Seismologica Sinica English Edition

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 167-173

  Zhao, Al Hua ^a   Zhang, Zhong Jie ^a   Wang, Guang Jle ^a   Wang, Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fermat's principle; Huygens' principle; Ray path; Traveltime; Wavelet spreading area

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001278991     PISSN: 10009116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-000-0006-y     Document Type: Article

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