Sensitivity of seismic wide-angle wave-field and first arrival times to fine scale crustal structure and Moho topography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2573-2576

  Hansen, Thomas M ^b   Singh, Satish C ^a   Jacobsen, Bo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY; RAY TRACING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FINE SCALE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WIDE ANGLE WAVE FIELD; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FIRST ARRIVAL; LINEAR VELOCITY; REFLECTED WAVES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

SEISMOLOGY; LAMINATES;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOHO; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0033401505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900553     Document Type: Article

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