Approximation to cutoffs of higher modes of Rayleigh waves for a layered earth model

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-351

  Xu, Yixian ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^b   Miller, Richard D ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutoffs; Higher modes; Layered half space model; Rayleigh waves

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC PROPERTY; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 64749106140     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0443-4     Document Type: Article

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