Observations in support of Rg scattering as a source for explosion S waves: Regional and local recordings of the 1997 Kazakhstan depth of burial experiment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 544-549

  Myers, Stephen C ^a   Walter, William R ^a   Mayeda, Kevin ^a   Glenn, Lewis ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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