Imaging the shallow crust using teleseismic tomography

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1276-1282

  Schmedes, J ^a   Roth, J B ^a   Saltzer, R L ^a   Leahy, G M ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVES; DELAY TIME; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LOW-FREQUENCY ENERGY; RELATIVE DELAY; SHALLOW CRUST; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; SUBSURFACE VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 84862122499     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110217     Document Type: Article

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