Ambient noise tomography with a large seismic array

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 343, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 558-570

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Seismology; Surface waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 80051798774     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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