Scattering of teleseismic waves in the lower crust observations in the Massif Central, France

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 127-146

  Ritter, Joachim R R ^a   Mai, P Martin ^a   Stoll, Gerald ^a,b   Fuchs, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b CompuServ ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Coda signals; Massif Central; Seismic network; Teleseismic recordings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006131206     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00046-0     Document Type: Article

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