Transdimensional inversion of ambient seismic noise for 3D shear velocity structure of the tasmanian crust

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Young, Mallory K ^a   Rawlinson, Nicholas ^a   Bodin, Thomas ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISPERSION (WAVES); INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; IMAGING METHOD; OCEANIC CRUST; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84878743583     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2012-0356.1     Document Type: Article

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