The effect of 'noise' on estimates of the elastic thickness of the continental lithosphere by the coherence method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Swain, C J ^a   Kirby, J F ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTALS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL LOADS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; GRAVITY; RHEOLOGY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOPOGRAPHY;

(CENTRAL); AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0041911069     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017070     Document Type: Article

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