Apparent shear-wave splitting parameters in the presence of vertically varying anisotropy

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 790-800

  Rümpker, Georg ^a,b   Silver, Paul G ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Seismische Tiefensondierung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Inversion; Multiple layers; Random media; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; S-WAVE;

EID: 0032466633     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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