3D seismic refraction traveltime tomography at a groundwater contamination site

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Zelt, Colin A ^a   Azaria, Aron ^a,b   Levander, Alan ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CGG   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminated site remediation; Geophysical techniques; Groundwater; Seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; POSTSTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFRACTION TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

GEOPHYSICS;

GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33748866123     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2258094     Document Type: Article

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