Identification of lateral discontinuities via multi-offset phase analysis of surface wave data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 389-413

  Vignoli, Giulio ^a,b   Cassiani, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; AUTOMATED METHODS; DISPERSION CURVES; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LATERAL VELOCITIES; MULTI-OFFSET; NEW APPROACHES; NOISE EVALUATION; PHASE ANALYSIS; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVE DATA; SYNTHETIC MODELS; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 77954352624     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2009.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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