A crust and upper-mantle model of Eurasia and North Africa for Pn travel-time calculation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 640-656

  Myers, Stephen C ^a   Begnaud, Michael L ^b   Ballard, Sanford ^c   Pasyanos, Michael E ^a   Phillips, W Scott ^b   Ramirez, Abelardo L ^a   Antolik, Michael S ^d   Hutchenson, Kevin D ^d   Dwyer, John J ^e   Rowe, Charlotte A ^b   Wagner, Gregory S ^e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Quantum Technology Sciences Inc   (United States)

^e USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; DATA SETS; EURASIA; LINEAR VELOCITY; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; NORTH AFRICA; ON-SITE INSPECTION; OPERATIONAL MONITORING SYSTEM; ROUTINE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS; VALIDATION DATA; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

DATA REDUCTION;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERPOLATION; MODELING; MOHO; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 77950359505     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090198     Document Type: Article

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