Non-linear 3-D Born shear waveform tomography in Southeast Asia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 463-475

  Panning, Mark P ^a   Cao, Aimin ^b,c   Kim, Ahyi ^b,d   Romanowicz, Barbara A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TGS NOPEC Geophysical   (United States)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia; Seismic anisotropy; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ASIA; COUPLING THEORY; DATA SETS; DEPTH RANGE; FIRST-ORDER BORN APPROXIMATION; FREE OSCILLATION; HIGH VELOCITY; ISOTROPIC MODELS; MODIFIED BORN APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIMODES; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RADIALLY ANISOTROPIC; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UNDERPLATING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS; VERTICAL DEFORMATION; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DATA;

ANISOTROPY; BORN APPROXIMATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DATA SET; EURASIAN PLATE; INDIAN PLATE; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNDERPLATING; WAVE MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84862238833     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05489.x     Document Type: Article

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