From ACH tomographic models to absolute velocity models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 621-629

  Lévêque, Jean Jacques ^a   Masson, Frédéric ^b  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; P waves; Seismic tomography; Tibet

Indexed keywords

INVERSE ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

CHINA; TIBET;

EID: 0032849042     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00808.x     Document Type: Article

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