Estimates of upper-crustal heterogeneity in the Baltic Shield from seismic scattering and borehole logs

Tectonophysics

Volumn 286, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 171-183

  Line, C E R ^a   Hobbs, R W ^b   Snyder, D B ^b  

^a Mobil North Sea Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation distance; Heterogeneity; Scattering; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC DATA;

BALTIC SHIELD; EUROPE;

EID: 0031689296     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00263-1     Document Type: Article

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