Crustal thickness variations in southern california from los angeles region seismic experiment passive phase teleseismic travel times

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1330-1344

  Kohler, Monica D ^a   Davis, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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