Monitoring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Possible ambiguities due to meteorite impacts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-194

  Chyba, Christopher F ^a   Van der Vink, Gregory E ^b   Hennet, Christel B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b IRIS Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOR IMPACTS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;

COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY; HYPERVELOCITIES; METEORITE IMPACT; POTENTIAL TERRORIST;

METEOR IMPACTS; SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMIC MONITORING;

EID: 0031646804     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03586     Document Type: Article

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