Lg group velocity: A depth discriminant revisited

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 722-739

  Baker, G Eli ^a   Stevens, Jeff ^a   Xu, Heming ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ISREAL; LG GROUP VELOCITY; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

SEISMOLOGY;

LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 2542640898     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000286     Document Type: Article

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