Attenuation tomography of the Southern Apennines (Italy)

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-365

  Zolezzi, F ^a   Morasca, P ^a   Mayeda, K ^b   Phillips, W S ^c   Eva, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation Apennines; Coda waves; Q tomography; Southern Apennines

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CODA; HETEROGENEITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; Q FACTOR; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 46349085783     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-007-9079-6     Document Type: Article

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