Fault scaling and 1/f noise scaling of seismic velocity fluctuations in the upper crystalline crust

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1103-1106

  Holliger, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; CRACKS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FRACTALS; POWER SPECTRUM; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; FAULTS , FRACTURES; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SCALING PROPERTIES; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VELOCITY PERTURBATION; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; FAULT STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

VELOCITY;

CRACK; FAULT; FRACTURE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER CRUST; CRUST (UPPER); FAULT SCALING; NOISE SCALING; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SONIC LOGGING;

EID: 0030441107     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1103:FSAFNS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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