Measuring surface-wave overtone phase velocities using a mode-branch stripping technique

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-230

  Van Heijst, Hendrik Jan ^a   Woodhouse, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Seismic tomography; Seismology; Surface waves; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031403249     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1997.tb01217.x     Document Type: Article

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