Wide-angle reflection profiling with quarry blasts in the eastern Tennessee seismic zone

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 108-122

  Hawman, Robert B ^a   Chapman, Martin C ^b   Powell, Christine A ^c   Clippard, Jeffrey E ^a   Ahmed, Hishameldin O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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EID: 7244253337     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.72.1.108     Document Type: Article

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