Wave-field tau-p analysis for 2-D velocity models: Application to western North American lithosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2323-2326

  Gorman, Andrew R ^a   Clowes, Ron M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBES; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

2-D VELOCITY MODELS; APPROPRIATE VELOCITIES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; DOWNWARD CONTINUATION; ITERATIVE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

CRUST; DEEP PROBE; LINEAR TRANSFORMS; PROTEROZOIC LITHOSPHERE; RAY THEORY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY FUNCTION; WAVE FIELD TRANSFORM METHOD;

DATA PROCESSING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033404933     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900409     Document Type: Article

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