Improving depth resolution of teleseismic tomography by simultaneous inversion of teleseismic and global P-wave traveltime data - Application to the Vrancea region in Southeastern Europe

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 811-823

  Weidle, Christian ^a,c   Widiyantoro, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body wave inversion; Seismic tomography; Vrancea region

Indexed keywords

INVERSE ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 29744465762     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02649.x     Document Type: Article

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