Three-dimensional seismic structure beneath Shillong Plateau and Assam Valley, northeast India

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 667-676

  Kayal, J R ^b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a,c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASSAM VALLEY; INDIA; SHILLONG PLATEAU;

EID: 0344835810     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/bssa0880030667     Document Type: Article

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