Seismic tomography of the southern California crust based on spectral-element and adjoint methods
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Carl Tape,1∗ Qinya Liu,2 Alessia Maggi3 and Jeroen Tromp4 1Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Physics, University of Toronto, ON, Canada 3Institut de Physique du Globe, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 4Department of Geosciences and Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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