Joint inversion of multichannel seismic reflection and wide-angle seismic data: Improved imaging and refined velocity model of the crustal structure of the north Ecuador south Colombia convergent margin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Agudelo, W ^a,b   Ribodetti, A ^a   Collot, J Y ^a   Operto, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGING METHOD; LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 66149184432     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005690     Document Type: Article

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