Global maps of Rayleigh wave attenuation for periods between 40 and 150 seconds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3619-3622

  Billien, Magali ^a   Lévêque, Jean Jacques ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAYLEIGH WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; VELOCITY;

AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENTS; ATTENUATION MAPS; ELASTIC MODELING; GOOD CORRELATIONS; LARGE-SIZE STRUCTURES; RAYLEIGH WAVE ATTENUATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AFRICA; GLOBAL MAPS; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 17744377597     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011389     Document Type: Article

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