Compressional and shear-wave velocity versus depth relations for common rock types in northern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 950-968

  Brocher, Thomas M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

MAFIC ROCK; S-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42649126543     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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