Nonlinear refraction traveltime tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1726-1737

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Toksöz, M Nafi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEOTOMO LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic refraction; Tomography

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAY TRACING; TOMOGRAPHY;

NONLINEAR REFRACTION TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

SEISMIC REFRACTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032171985     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444468     Document Type: Article

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