Seismic anisotropy of transveres waves beneath southern Tibet

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 215-223

  Lü, Qingtian ^b   Ma, Kaiyi ^b   Jiang, Mei ^b   Hirn, A ^a   Nercessian, A ^a  

^a IPG Paris   (France)

^b NONE

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