Seismic velocity structure of the Puget Sound region from 3-D non-linear tomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2593-2596

  Symons, Neill P ^a   Crosson, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS;

HIGH-RESOLUTION STRUCTURES; MODEL INTERPRETATIONS; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEISMOGRAPH NETWORKS; PROMINENT FEATURES; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY;

PUGET SOUND REGION; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

USA, WASHINGTON, PUGET SOUND;

EID: 0031277769     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL52692     Document Type: Article

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