Frequency-dependent crustal correction for finite-frequency seismic tomography
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
12-1-2006
Abstract
Removing the crustal signature from teleseismic travel times is an important procedure to reduce the trade-off between crustal and mantle velocity heterogeneities in seismic tomography. Because reverberations of long- and short-period body-wave arrivals in the crust affect the waveforms of the direct arrivals differently, the crustal effects on travel times measured by waveform cross correlation are frequency dependent. With synthetic responses of selected crustal models, this short note illustrates the significance of frequency-dependent crustal corrections to finite-frequency body-wave travel-time tomography. The differences in crustal correction between long- and short-period body waves at the same station can be as large as 0.6 sec, depending on the crustal thickness, velocity contrast at the Moho, and layering within the crust.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Volume
96
Issue
6
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Yang, Ting, and Yang Shen. "Frequency-dependent crustal correction for finite-frequency seismic tomography." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 96, 6 (2006). doi: 10.1785/0120060038.