The equations for estimating the travel-time errors due to the isotropic and anisotropic common ray approximations of the coupling ray theory for S waves are derived and numerically tested.
Coupling ray theory, common ray approximation, travel time, perturbation methods, seismic anisotropy, inhomogeneous media.
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