An assessment of the accuracy of admittance and coherence estimates using synthetic data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-54

  Crosby, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexure of the lithosphere; Free airgravity; Spectral analysis; Topography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUGUER ANOMALY; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248823521     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03520.x     Document Type: Article

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