High-resolution 3D shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: Application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Fan Chi ^a   Li, Dunzhu ^a   Clayton, Robert W ^a   Hollis, Dan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NodalSeismic LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BEACHES; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIES; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTH STRUCTURES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GEOLOGIC FEATURES; LONG BEACH , CALIFORNIA; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE VELOCITY; RAY TRACING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; LONG BEACH [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883143243     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2012-0453.1     Document Type: Article

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