International Journal of Geophysics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 272646, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/272646
Review Article
Broadband Seismic Deployments for Imaging the Upper Mantle Structure in the Lützow-Holm Bay Region, East Antarctica
1National Institute of Polar Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
2Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Bunkyo-cho 2-5, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
Received 16 January 2011; Revised 14 May 2011; Accepted 31 May 2011
Academic Editor: Martin Tygel
Copyright © 2011 Masaki Kanao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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