Traveltimes and Amplitudes of Seismic Waves: A Re-Assessment

Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 37-47

  Nolet, Guust ^a   Dahlen, F A ^a   Montelli, Raffaella ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic arrays; Seismograms

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; SURVEYS;

BODY WAVES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FINITE FREQUENCIES; REFRACTION SURVEYS; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SEISMOGRAMS; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84952760261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/157GM03     Document Type: Chapter

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