Inversion of receiver functions without deconvolution-application to the Indian craton

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1025-1033

  Bodin, Thomas ^a   Yuan, Huaiyu ^a   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Grp de Biol de la Cellule N   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Body waves; Cratons.; Inverse theory; Probability distributions; Surface waves and free oscillations; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CRATONS; INVERSE THEORY; LIKELIHOOD PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE VELOCITIES; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; SURFACE WAVES AND FREE OSCILLATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; WATER LEVELS;

DECONVOLUTION;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; CRATON; DECONVOLUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 84881555913     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt431     Document Type: Article

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