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Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1591-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1591-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
Research article
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29 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 29 Nov 2016

The imprint of crustal density heterogeneities on regional seismic wave propagation

Agnieszka Płonka, Nienke Blom, and Andreas Fichtner

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Imaging the inside of the Earth requires knowledge of how the Earth's properties affect seismic recordings. However, certain properties, such as density, affect seismograms in a way that is not fully known. Using numerical simulations, we can calculate a synthetic seismogram for a medium with and without density heterogeneities, and then compare the two signals. That way, we quantify the density effect on a seismogram. We also show that it is visible and growing as the wavefield gets scattered.
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