High resolution Rayleigh wave group velocity tomography in North China from ambient seismic noise

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1171-1182

  Fang, Lihua ^a,b   Wu, Jianping ^a   Ding, Zhifeng ^a   Panza, G F ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asia; Crustal structure; Interferometry; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; HETEROGENEITY; INTERFEROMETRY; OSCILLATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SURFACE WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE GROUP; WAVE VELOCITY;

CHINA; ORDOS; TAIHANG MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77953090360     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04571.x     Document Type: Article

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