Three-dimensional crustal structure in central Taiwan from gravity inversion with a parallel genetic algorithm

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 917-924

  Zhang, Jian ^a,b   Wang, Chi Yuen ^a   Shi, Yaolin ^b   Cai, Yongen ^c   Chi, Wu Cheng ^a   Dreger, Douglas ^a   Cheng, Win Bin ^d   Yuan, Yen Horng ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GRAVITATION; TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANOMALY DATA; TAIWAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; COEFFICIENT MATRIX; EARTH CRUSTS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; REGION OF INTEREST; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY ANOMALY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 4544387726     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1778235     Document Type: Article

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