Crustal scattering and some artifacts in receiver function images

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1492-1499

  Morozov, Igor B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CRUSTAL SCATTERING; FAULT ZONES; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 7244256000     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003117     Document Type: Article

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