Inversion structures in a foreland domain: Seismic examples from the Italian Adriatic Sea

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Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages SAA161-SAA176

  Pace, Paolo ^a   Scisciani, Vittorio ^a   Calamita, Fernando ^a   Butler, Robert W H ^b   Iacopini, David ^b   Esestime, Paolo ^c   Hodgson, Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c SPECTRUM GEO LTD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84975678661     PISSN: 23248858     EISSN: 23248866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/INT-2015-0013.1     Document Type: Article

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