The effect of small-scale heterogeneity on the arrival time of waves

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 786-796

  Spetzler, Jesper ^a,b   Snieder, Roel ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Caustics; Fr chet derivatives; Ray theory; Rytov approximation; Scattering

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; SCATTERING; SEISMICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034970671     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2001.01438.x     Document Type: Article

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