On ACH, or how reliable is regional teleseismic delay time tomography?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 21-32

  Masson, F ^a,b   Trampert, J ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC DELAY TIME;

EID: 0030670535     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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