Using delay-fired quarry blasts to image the crust: A comparison of methods for deconvolving mixed-delay source wavelets

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1476-1491

  Hawman, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BLASTING; ENTROPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUARRYING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COHERENT ARTIFACTS; RIPPLE FIRING;

QUARRIES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; DECONVOLUTION; SEISMIC DATA; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 7244261886     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003209     Document Type: Article

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