Empirical relations between elastic wavespeeds and density in the Earth's crust

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2081-2092

  Brocher, Thomas M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVESPEED; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES;

SEISMOLOGY;

P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 31544438040     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050077     Document Type: Article

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