Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1049-1053

  Lin, Fan Chi ^a   Tsai, Victor C ^a   Schmandt, Brandon ^a   Duputel, Zacharie ^a   Zhan, Zhongwen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Core phases; cross correlation; Seismic interferometry

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CORE PHASES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; REMOTE REGIONS; SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRIES; SPATIAL SAMPLING; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRAY; BODY WAVE; INNER CORE; INTERFEROMETRY; OUTER CORE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84876936858     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50237     Document Type: Article

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