Constraints on the shallow seismic structure at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1107, Ninetyeast Ridge, from implosive bottom sources and airgun shots

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 907-910

  Grevemeyer, Ingo ^a   Flueh, Ernst R ^a   Herber, Rolf ^b   Villinger, Heinrich ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL WELL DRILLING; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SENSORS; VELOCITY; LITHOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

AIRGUN SHOTS; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

BASEMENT ROCKS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SEISMIC TECHNIQUE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHALLOW SEISMIC; TRAVEL TIME INVERSION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033117348     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900151     Document Type: Article

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