Determining Q of near-surface materials from Rayleigh waves

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 2-4, 2002, Pages 121-129

  Xia, Jianghai ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Park, Choon B ^a   Tian, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attenuation coefficients; Near surface materials; Quality factors; Rayleigh waves

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SURFACE WAVES;

PHASE VELOCITIES;

GEOPHYSICS;

LAYERED MEDIUM; Q FACTOR; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0036891115     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(02)00228-8     Document Type: Article

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