Bouguer reduction density, why 2.67?

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1559-1560

  Hinze, William J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; GRAVITY ANOMALY;

EID: 0242493883     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1620629     Document Type: Article

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