High-frequency Rayleigh-wave method

Journal of Earth Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 563-579

  Xia, Jianghai ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Xu, Yixian ^b   Luo, Yinhe ^b   Chen, Chao ^b   Liu, Jiangping ^b   Ivanov, Julian ^a   Zeng, Chong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dispersion; High mode; Mode separation; Model appraisal; Rayleigh wave; Seismic modeling

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DAMPING; DATA INVERSION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 70349973879     PISSN: 1674487X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12583-009-0047-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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