Estimation of the depth of anisotropy using spatial coherency of shear-wave splitting parameters

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2153-2161

  Liu, Kelly H ^a   Gao, Stephen S ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL AXIS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INCIDENCE ANGLES; OPTIMAL DEPTH; SEISMIC PHASIS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING PARAMETERS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SINGLE LAYER; SPATIAL COHERENCY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

ANISOTROPY; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; EARTH STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS;

EID: 80053212634     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100258     Document Type: Article

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