Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; October 1979; v. 69; no. 5;
p. 1439-1444
© 1979 Seismological Society of America
Wiechert-Herglotz inversion as integration on a closed contour
GEORGE A. MCMECHAN
PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE EARTH PHYSICS BRANCH, SIDNEY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada
Abstract
Wiechert-Herglotz integration around the boundary of the p-
area representing the
contribution of a ray segment gives the corresponding depth increment. Thus, Wiechert-Herglotz inversion can be performed with reference depths other than the surface of the Earth and with nonsurface as well as surface focus p-
curves providing that a depth can be assigned to any point on the path of integration.
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