Seismic studies around the Kola Superdeep Borehole, Russia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 288, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Ganchin, Y V ^a   Smithson, S B ^a   Morozov, I B ^a   Smythe, D K ^b   Garipov, V Z ^c   Karaev, N A ^d   Kristofferson, Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Russian Committee of Geology   (Russian Federation)

^d VIRG 'Rudgeofizika'   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Borehole; CDP; Kola; Reflections; VSP

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; KOLA SUPERDEEP BOREHOLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, KOLA PENINSULA;

EID: 0031843086     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00280-1     Document Type: Article

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