High-resolution Rayleigh-wave velocity maps of central Europe from a dense ambient-noise data set

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1173-1187

  Verbeke, J ^a   Boschi, L ^a,b   Stehly, L ^c   Kissling, E ^a   Michelini, A ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Europe; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BROAD BANDS; CENTRAL EUROPE; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DISPERSION CURVES; EUROPE; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUNGARIANS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NOISE CORRELATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC RECORDING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; VELOCITY MAPS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SURFACE WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; AMBIENT NOISE; CORRELATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; DATABASE; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE VELOCITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84857045179     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05308.x     Document Type: Article

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