A water-rich transition zone beneath the eastern United States and gulf of Mexico from multiple ScS reverberations

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 168, Issue , 2006, Pages 181-193

  Courtier, Anna M ^a   Revenaugh, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 34250646783     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/168GM14     Document Type: Chapter

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