Inversion of ray velocity and polarization for elasticity tensor

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Bóna, Andrej ^a   Bucataru, Ioan ^b   Slawinski, Michael A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Elasticity tensor; Polarizations; Ray velocity; Traveltime

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; ELASTICITY; POLARIZATION; TENSORS; VELOCITY; WAVEFRONTS;

ELASTICITY TENSOR; RAY VELOCITY; TRAVELTIME;

GEOPHYSICS;

DATA INVERSION; ELASTICITY; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; POLARIZATION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 43649096566     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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