Crustal thickness and Pn anisotropy beneath the southern alps oblique collision, New Zealand

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 175, Issue , 2007, Pages 115-122

  Bourguignon, S ^a   Savage, M K ^a   Stern, T ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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EID: 73449117277     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/175GM07     Document Type: Chapter

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