Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective

RL Rudnick, DM Fountain - Reviews of geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Geophysical, petrological, and geochemical data provide important clues about the
composition of the deep continental crust. On the basis of seismic refraction data, we divide …

Seismic tomography: a window into deep Earth

N Rawlinson, S Pozgay, S Fishwick - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

Seismic traveltime inversion for 2-D crustal velocity structure

CA Zelt, RB Smith - Geophysical journal international, 1992 - academic.oup.com
A method of seismic traveltime inversion for simultaneous determination of 2-D velocity and
interface structure is presented that is applicable to any type of body-wave seismic data. The …

Modelling strategies and model assessment for wide-angle seismic traveltime data

CA Zelt - Geophysical Journal International, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Strategies for modelling seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection traveltimes to obtain 2-D
velocity and interface structure are presented along with methods for assessing the reliability …

Multiscale imaging of complex structures from multifold wide-aperture seismic data by frequency-domain full-waveform tomography: application to a thrust belt

C Ravaut, S Operto, L Improta, J Virieux… - Geophysical Journal …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
An application of full-waveform tomography to dense onshore wide-aperture seismic data
recorded in a complex geological setting (thrust belt) is presented. The waveform modelling …

Seismic traveltime tomography of the crust and lithosphere

N Rawlinson, M Sambridge - Advances in geophysics, 2003 - books.google.com
Seismic data represent one of the most valuable resources for investigating the internal
structure and composition of the earth. One of the first people to deduce earth structure from …

Multiple reflection and transmission phases in complex layered media using a multistage fast marching method

N Rawlinson, M Sambridge - Geophysics, 2004 - library.seg.org
Traditional grid-based eikonal schemes for computing traveltimes are usually confined to
obtaining first arrivals only. However, later arrivals can be numerous and of greater …

Crustal structure of central Tibet as derived from project INDEPTH wide-angle seismic data

W Zhao, J Mechie, LD Brown, J Guo… - Geophysical Journal …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
In the summer of 1998, project INDEPTH recorded a 400 km long NNW–SSE wide-angle
seismic profile in central Tibet, from the Lhasa terrane across the Banggong-Nujiang suture …

The 17 May 2012 M4.8 earthquake near Timpson, East Texas: An event possibly triggered by fluid injection

C Frohlich, W Ellsworth, WA Brown… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study summarizes our investigation of the 17 May 2012 MW‐RMT4. 8 earthquake near
Timpson, Texas, the largest earthquake recorded historically in eastern Texas. To identify …

Quantitative imaging of complex structures from dense wide‐aperture seismic data by multiscale traveltime and waveform inversions: a case study

S Operto, C Ravaut, L Improta, J Virieux… - Geophysical …, 2004 - earthdoc.org
An integrated multiscale seismic imaging flow is applied to dense onshore wide‐aperture
seismic data recorded in a complex geological setting (thrust belt). An initial P‐wave velocity …