Seismic ray tracing and wavefront tracking in laterally heterogeneous media

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2008, Pages 203-273

  Rawlinson, N ^a   Hauser, J ^a   Sambridge, M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; TRACKING;

EID: 35348885441     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(07)49003-3     Document Type: Review

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