Rayleigh-wave group-velocity of the Icelandic crust from correlation of ambient seismic noise

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Gudmundsson, Ólafurg ^a   Khan, A ^b   Voss, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION METHODS; FREQUENCY BANDS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; RAYLEIGH-WAVE GROUP-VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 34548585861     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030215     Document Type: Article

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