Analysis of Antarctic glaciations by seismic reflection and refraction tomography

Marine Geology

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 145-154

  Accaino, Flavio ^a   Böhm, Gualtiero ^a   Brancolini, Giuliano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

High seismic velocity; Over compaction; Seismic data; Tomographic inversion; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

POROSITY; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL STACK; JOINT TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; PRE-STACK MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC DATA;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA INVERSION; ICE SHEET; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; OCEANIC REGIONS; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 16244390894     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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