Intermediate-period group-velocity maps across Central Asia, western China and parts of the Middle East

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 315-328

  Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Levshin, Anatoli L ^a   Ratnikova, Ludmila I ^a   Egorkin, Alexei A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031680719     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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