Apparent anisotropy in inhomogeneous isotropic media

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1205-1219

  Lin, Fan Chi ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL ANGLE; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; AZIMUTHAL DISTRIBUTIONS; BACKWARD SCATTERING; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; EIKONAL; FINITE-FREQUENCY EFFECTS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; ISOTROPIC MEDIA; LATERAL VARIATIONS; METHOD OF MEASUREMENT; PHASE SPEED; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS; TELESEISMIC; WAVE SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION; WAVEFIELDS;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; FORWARD SCATTERING; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFRONTS;

ANISOTROPY;

DATA INVERSION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 80051783208     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05100.x     Document Type: Article

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