Thin crust and active upper mantle beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada in the western United States
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Tectonophysics
- Vol. 286 (1-4) , 237-252
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951(97)00268-0
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