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Land based seismic exploration has typically viewed the surface wave or ground roll as undesirable noise while earthquake seismology has been able to use the surface wave to invert for lateral variations in crust-upper mantle shear-wave velocity. Although surface-wave inversion techniques for shear-wave velocity and shear-wave Q are easy to apply once the phase velocity, group velocity and anelastic attenuation dispersion are known, the manner in which these parameters are obtained efficiently from large exploration data sets has not been fully explored. This paper will address the processing steps required and apply them to surface-waves recorded in a refraction experiment in the State of Maine in the U. S.
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Herrmann, R.B., Al-Eqabi, G.I. (1991). Surface Wave Inversion for Shear Wave Velocity. In: Hovem, J.M., Richardson, M.D., Stoll, R.D. (eds) Shear Waves in Marine Sediments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3568-9_63
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