Identification of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity by modelling of controlled-source seismic data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 416, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 209-228

  Nielsen, L ^a   Thybo, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crust; Mantle; Peaceful nuclear explosions; Seismic modelling; Seismic scattering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE MODELING;

USSR;

EID: 33645881051     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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