Scholte-wave tomography for shallow-water marine sediments

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 551-570

  Kugler, Simone ^a   Bohlen, Thomas ^a,d   Forbriger, Thomas ^b,e   Bussat, Sascha ^a   Klein, Gerald ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Black Forest Observatory (BFO)   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^f Develogie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Inversion; Scholte waves; Shallow marine seismics; Shear wave velocity; Surface waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 33846674846     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03233.x     Document Type: Article

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