High-resolution surface-wave tomography from ambient seismic noise.
Cross-correlation of 1 month of ambient seismic noise recorded at USArray stations in California yields hundreds of short-period surface-wave group-speed measurements on interstation paths. We used these measurements to construct tomographic images of the principal geological units of California, with low-speed anomalies corresponding to the main sedimentary basins and high-speed anomalies corresponding to the igneous cores of the major mountain ranges. This method can improve the resolution and fidelity of crustal images obtained from surface-wave analyses.
Shapiro
Nikolai M
NM
Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. nshapiro@ciei.colorado.edu
Campillo
Michel
M
Stehly
Laurent
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Ritzwoller
Michael H
MH