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In this chapter, we use the manually picked first-arrival times from the closely-spaced receivers sub-linearly deployed by the TAIGER project along island-wide transects and the pre-existing stations distributed in northern Taiwan to examine the underlying velocity profiles.
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Lin, YP. (2018). Crustal Velocity Variations in Taiwan Revealed by Active-Source Seismic Observations. In: Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Tomography Using Active Source and Earthquake Records. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5068-8_3
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