Lithosphere of Indus block in the Northwest Indian subcontinent through genetic algorithm inversion of surface-wave dispersion

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1750-1755

  Suresh, G ^a   Jain, Saurabh ^b   Bhattacharya, S N ^b,c  

^a INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT VELOCITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICS;

S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SOLUTION SPACES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFTERSHOCK; ASTHENOSPHERE; BHUJ EARTHQUAKE 2001; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SHIELD; ARAVALLI RANGE; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MIDDLE EAST; NUBIAN SHIELD; RAJASTHAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 50549084880     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070254     Document Type: Article

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