Deformation in the lower crust and downward extent of the San Andreas Fault as revealed by teleseismic waveforms

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1005-1010

  Zhu, Lupei ^a  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

EID: 18144417257     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353293     Document Type: Article

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