Travel time tomography inversion and the deep structure of southern Tibet

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 451-459

  Lu, Qingtian ^a   Jiang, Mei ^a   Ma, Kaiyi ^a   Hirn, A ^a   Nercessian, A ^a  

^a IPG Paris   (France)

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