Geometric spreading of Pn and Sn in a spherical earth model

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2053-2065

  Yang, Xiaoning ^a   Lay, Thorne ^b   Xie, Xiao Bi ^b   Thorne, Michael S ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GEOMETRIC SPREADING; MANTLE-LID VELOCITIES; SPHERICAL EARTH MODEL; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

EARTH (PLANET);

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 38349168203     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070031     Document Type: Article

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