Seismic attenuation in the Costa Rica margin wedge: Amplitude modeling of ocean bottom hydrophone data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 391-405

  Christeson, G L ^a   McIntosh, K D ^a   Shipley, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Costa Rica; Hydrophones; Marginal basins; Ocean bottom seismographs; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033940380     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00118-7     Document Type: Article

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