The formation of caustics in two-and three-dimensional media

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 175-182

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

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Caustics; Focus Point; Gaussian Random Media; Ray Perturbation Theory

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 0035126542     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2001.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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