Approximate 3D body-wave synthetics for tomographic models

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 212-224

  Helmberger, Don V ^a   Ni, Sidao ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D NUMERICAL SYNTHETICS; DIFFRACTION OPERATORS; RAY PATHS; TRAVEL TIME;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 18144423140     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040004     Document Type: Article

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