Seismic refraction traveltime inversion for static corrections in a glaciated shield rock environment: A case study

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 997-1008

  Schijns, Heather ^a   Heinonen, Suvi ^b   Schmitt, Douglas R ^a   Heikkinen, Pekka ^b   Kukkonen, Ilmo T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX GEOLOGY; CRYSTALLINE BEDROCKS; FIRST BREAKS; GLACIAL TILL; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; PARAMETER PERTURBATION; ROCK AREA; SEISMIC LINES; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION SURVEY; SEISMIC SURVEYS; STATIC CORRECTION; TOPOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; BEDROCK; DATA INVERSION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 70350654077     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2009.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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