Crustal-scale prestack depth imaging of the 1994 and 1999 LARSE surveys

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 577-585

  Thornton, Michael ^a   Zhou, Hua Wei ^b  

^a Seismic Micro Technology Inc   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFLECTION; RHENIUM; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; SURVEYS; TECTONICS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; COMMON MID POINT (CMP); DEPTH IMAGING; EUROPEAN; FAULT ZONES; GEOSCIENTISTS; LATERAL VELOCITIES; LOCAL EARTHQUAKES; LOS ANGELES (LA); NOISE LEVELS; PRESTACK DEPTH IMAGING; REFLECTION DATA; REFRACTION DATA; SAN ANDREAS FAULT (SAF); SEISMIC IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY MODELING; WIDE ANGLE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MODELING; MOHO; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 45349083532     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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