Inversion of traveltime data under a statistical model for seismic velocities and layer interfaces

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Bosch, Miguel ^a,b   Barton, Penny ^a   Singh, Satish C ^c   Trinks, Immo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

LAYER INTERFACES; SEISMIC TRAVELTIME DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27344442430     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1993712     Document Type: Article

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