Advantages of Using Multichannel Analysis of Love Waves (MALW) to Estimate Near-Surface Shear-Wave Velocity

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 841-860

  Xia, Jianghai ^b   Xu, Yixian ^b   Luo, Yinhe ^b   Miller, Richard D ^a   Cakir, Recep ^c   Zeng, Chong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c Geology and Earth Resources   (United States)

^d BGP Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion curves; Inversion; Love waves; MALW; Multichannel analysis of Love waves; Shear wave velocity

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION CURVES; INVERSION; LOVE WAVE; MALW; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

LOVE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SH-WAVE;

EID: 84864315552     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9174-2     Document Type: Article

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