Seismic evidence for subhorizontal crustal detachments beneath the Irish Variscides

Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn , Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Vermeulen, N J ^b   Shannon, P M ^b   Landes, M ^b   Masson, F ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b NONE

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