Global crustal thickness from neural network inversion of surface wave data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 706-722

  Meier, Ueli ^a   Curtis, Andrew ^b,c   Trampert, Jeannot ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Inversion; Moho discontinuity; Surface waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INVERSION; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247255581     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03373.x     Document Type: Article

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