Using a Genetic Algorithm to Model Broadband Regional Waveforms for Crustal Structure in the Western United States

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 202-214

  Bhattacharyya, Joydeep ^a,b   Sheehan, Anne F ^a   Tiampo, Kristy ^a   Rundle, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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