Crustal velocity structure of the apennines (Italy) from P-wave travel time tomography

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1133-1148

  Chiarabba, Claudio ^a   Amato, Alessandro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apennines; Deep structure; P wave tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000014733     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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