Higher mode observation by the MASW method

1999 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Park, Choon B ^a   Miller, Richard D ^a   Xia, Jianghai ^a   Hunter, James A ^b   Harris, James B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c MILLSAPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY SURFACES; MULTI-CHANNEL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE WAVES; NEAR FIELD EFFECT; SURFACE WAVE MEASUREMENT; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT; VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 85058373517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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