Fully nonlinear inversion of fundamental mode surface waves for a global crustal model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Meier, U ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE VELOCITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

GLOBAL CRUSTAL MODEL; GROUP VELOCITY MAPS;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LOVE WAVE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PHASE VELOCITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 35948940821     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030989     Document Type: Article

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