Seismic imaging of the crust and upper mantle using regularized joint receiver functions, frequency-wave number filtering, and multimode Kirchhoff migration

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Wilson, David ^a,b   Aster, Richard ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC DATA; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 22944473985     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003430     Document Type: Article

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