A comparison between airguns and explosives as wide-angle seismic sources

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-339

  Staples, R K ^a   Hobbs, R W ^b   White, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Brit Institutions Reflection P   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EXPLOSIVES; GUNS (ARMAMENT); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AIRGUNS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TRAVELTIMES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AIR GUN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPLOSIVES; SEISMIC SOURCE;

EID: 0032800132     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.1999.00134.x     Document Type: Article

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