Enhanced Velocity Tomography: Practical method of combining velocity and attenuation parameters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3253-3256

  Debski W ^a   Young, R P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANITE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ROCKS; VELOCITY;

ENHANCED VELOCITY TOMOGRAPHY;

PETROLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; INDUCED DAMAGE; INSTABILITY PROBLEMS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NEW PARAMETERS; PRACTICAL METHOD; ROCK STRUCTURES; VELOCITY TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0343550400     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010368     Document Type: Article

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