Crustal structure across the Bering Strait, Alaska: Onshore recordings of a marine seismic survey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-37

  Wolf, Lorraine W ^a   McCaleb, Robert C ^b   Stone, David B ^c,d   Brocher, Thomas M ^e   Fujita, Kazuya ^b   Klemperer, Simon L ^f  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR GUN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALASKA; BERING STRAIT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870886607     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.25     Document Type: Review

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