Broadband seismic experiments probe the East African rift

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Volumn 83, Issue 37, 2002, Pages

  Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   Langston, Charles A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 7044258360     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002EO000296     Document Type: Article

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