Application of waveform tomography to marine seismic reflection data from the Queen Charlotte Basin of western Canada

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Takougang, E M Takam ^a   Calvert, A J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE BALANCING; AMPLITUDE SCALING; FORWARD MODELING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MARINE SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA;

TOMOGRAPHY;

P-WAVE; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CANADA; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEEN CHARLOTTE BASIN;

EID: 84857240468     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3553478     Document Type: Article

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