On the visibility of the inner-core shear wave phase PKJKP at long periods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1379-1383

  Shearer, Peter M ^a   Rychert, Catherine A ^b   Liu, Qinya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body waves; Computational seismology; Core, outer core and inner core; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CORE, OUTER CORE AND INNER CORE; CURRENT MODELS; EARTH MODELS; FOCUSING EFFECT; HIGH-ORDER; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC PHASIS; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SURFACE MULTIPLES; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; BODY WAVE; INNER CORE; OUTER CORE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; STACKING; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79955995138     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05011.x     Document Type: Article

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