Using ambient seismic noise to determine short-period phase velocities and shallow shear velocities in young oceanic lithosphere

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2009-2023

  Harmon, Nicholas ^a   Forsyth, Donald ^a   Webb, Spahr ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITIES; SHALLOW SHEAR VELOCITIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NOISE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 38349118373     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070050     Document Type: Article

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