Upper-mantle seismic structure in a region of incipient continental breakup: northern Ethiopian rift

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  2005

• Venue

  Geophysical Journal International

• Publication date

  2005-08-01

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  Geology

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-246X.2005.02666.X
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