Dominant higher surface-wave modes and possible inversion pitfalls

Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-201

  O'Neill, Adam ^a   Matsuoka, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOLOGY; STIFFNESS;

ARTIFACTS; MODE JUMPING; PHASE VELOCITY; SHALLOW WAVES;

SURFACE WAVES;

DATA INVERSION; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 21644457801     PISSN: 10831363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/JEEG10.2.185     Document Type: Article

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