A simultaneous multiphase approach to determine P-Wave and S-Wave attenuation of the crust and upper mantle

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3314-3325

  Pasyanos, Michael E ^a   Walter, William R ^a   Matzel, Eric M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE TOMOGRAPHY; ATTENUATION ,; COLLISION ZONE; EASTERN EUROPE; EVENT SOURCES; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; MIDDLE EAST; MULTIPHASE APPROACH; NORTHEAST AFRICA; PASS BANDS; RELATIVE VALUE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SOURCE TERMS; SOUTH ASIA; TECTONIC HISTORY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE ATTENUATION;

SHEAR WAVES; TIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

AMPLITUDE; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; Q FACTOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TETHYS; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 70349604510     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090061     Document Type: Article

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