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Philippe Roux1, W A Kuperman, Bruce D Cornuelle

  • 1Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph Fourier & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France. philippe.roux@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|April 6, 2013
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