Upper Mantle Structure below the Daldyn-Alakitsk Kimberlite Field by Nuclear Explosion Seismograms

Geology of Ore Deposits

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 19-32

  Egorkin, A V ^a  

^a SIBERIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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