Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography
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G JI S ei sm ol og y Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography Maureen D. Long,1,∗ Maarten V. de Hoop2 and Robert D. van der Hilst1 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Purdue University, 150 N. University St., West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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