The potential of measuring fracture sizes with frequency-dependent shear-wave splitting

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Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 45-51

  Maultzsch, Sonja ^a   Chapman, Mark ^a   Liu, Enru ^a   Li, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 4544257182     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1365-2397.2003012     Document Type: Article

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