Surface-wave methods are widely used in earth sciences and engineering for the geometric characterization of geological bodies and tectonic structures of the subsurface. These techniques exploit the dispersive nature of Rayleigh waves to indirectly estimate shear wave velocity profiles from surface-wave measurements; however, they are limited to parallel-layered geometries. To overcome such lim...

628 The Leading Edge June 2013 S interferometry on local scale usually aims at recovering Rayleigh waves. This is because of the predominant use of vertical component geophones in exploration seismology and the fact that Rayleigh waves occur for any given subsurface structure. On the other hand, Love waves are present only in layered media and require horizontal component geophones for their ob...

Rayleigh-wave phase velocity of a layered earth model is a function of frequency and four groups of earth properties: Pwave velocity, S-wave velocity (Vs), density, and thickness of layers. Analysis of the Jacobian matrix (or the difference method) provides a measure of dispersion curve sensitivity to earth properties. Vs is the dominant influence for the fundamental mode (Xia et al., 1999) and...

[1] Rayleigh wave phase and amplitude data are analyzed to provide new insight into the velocity structure of the upper mantle beneath the Slave craton, in the northwestern Canadian Shield. We invert for phase velocities at periods between 20 s–142 s (with greatest sensitivity at depths of 28–200 km) using crossing ray paths from events recorded by the POLARIS broadband seismic network and the ...

We use the multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method to analyze synthetic seismic data calculated from models that produce very similar high-velocity dispersion curve gradients at low frequencies. The MASW dispersioncurve images of the Rayleigh wave were obtained from data calculated using simple layered models with high (2-layer) and gradual (10-layer) shear-wave velocity (Vs) vert...

The present investigation deals with the propagation of Rayleigh wave in an incompressible medium bonded between two half-spaces. Variation in elastic parameters of the layer is taken linear form. The solution for layer and half-space are obtained analytically. Frequency equation for Rayleigh waves has been obtained. It is observed that the heterogeneity and width of the incompressible medium h...