A simple approach to the joint inversion of seismic body and surface waves applied to the southwest U.S

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  West, Michael ^a   Gao, Wei ^b   Grand, Stephen ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HINGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BODY WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BODY WAVE; DATA INVERSION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044261011     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020373     Document Type: Article

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