On the nature of regional seismic phases-IL on the influence of structural barriers

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-234

  Furumura, T ^a,b   Kennett, B L N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lateral heterogeneity; Lg wave; Moho discontinuity; North Sea Central Graben; Nuclear explosions; Seismic modelling; Synthetic seismograms; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LG WAVE; MOHO; STRUCTURAL BARRIER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NORTH SEA, CENTRAL GRABEN;

EID: 0030930889     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01577.x     Document Type: Article

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