The non-commutivity of shear wave splitting operators at low frequencies and implications for anisotropy tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1415-1427

  Silver, Paul G ^a   Long, Maureen D ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC SURFACES; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BROAD BANDS; DATA SETS; DELAY TIME; FORWARD MODELLING; JOINT INVERSION; LOW FREQUENCY; MULTIPLE LAYERS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE-WAVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE MODELS;

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

DATA INVERSION; FORWARD MODELING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 79951576713     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04927.x     Document Type: Article

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