Imaging and interpreting the shallow crystalline crust

Tectonophysics

Volumn 286, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 5-18

  Milkereit, B ^a   Eaton, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystalline terrane; Reflection seismics; Scattering; Shallow crustal structure

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031870074     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00251-5     Document Type: Article

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