Surface-to-tunnel seismic tomography studies at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Gritto, Roland ^a   Korneev, Valeri A ^a   Daley, Thomas M ^a   Feighner, Mark A ^b   Majer, Ernest L ^a   Peterson, John E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Solano Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

FD modeling; Surface to tunnel tomographic imaging; Velocity and fracture density estimation; Wave propagation in fractured tuff

Indexed keywords

FRACTURED MEDIUM; P-WAVE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TUFF; TUNNEL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 2542457627     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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