Uniformly valid body-wave ray theory

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 461-491

  Liu, Xian Feng ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Perturbation methods; Synthetic seismograms; Tomography

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; PERTURBATION METHOD; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030430688     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04734.x     Document Type: Article

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