Joint analysis of refractions with surface waves: An inverse solution to the refraction-traveltime problem

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Ivanov, Julian ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^a   Steeples, Don ^b   Park, Choon B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problems; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

INVERSE REFRACTION-TRAVELTIME PROBLEM; JOINT ANALYSIS OF REFRACTIONS; REFERENCE MODEL;

SEISMOLOGY;

INVERSE PROBLEM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SURFACE WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 33751033956     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2360226     Document Type: Article

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