Statistical measures of crustal heterogeneity from reflection seismic data: The role of seismic bandwidth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3241-3244

  Bean, Christopher J ^a   Marsan, David ^a   Martini, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; WHITE NOISE; GEOLOGY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CRUSTAL HETEROGENEITY; REFLECTION SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC BANDWIDTH;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CORRELATION DISTANCE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORRELATION LENGTHS; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; STATISTICAL MEASURES; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROPERTIES; WHITE NOISE SPECTRUM;

EID: 0033226490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005400     Document Type: Article

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