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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Stuart Henrys (GNS Science) and an anonymous external reviewer for constructive comments. We also thank Jennifer Eccles (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Frank Krüger (University of Potsdam, Germany) for providing the images in Figs. 3 and 4, respectively.

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  1. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Ingo A. Pecher

  2. Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

    Ingo A. Pecher

  3. Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Jörg Bialas & Ernst R. Flueh

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Pecher, I.A., Bialas, J., Flueh, E.R. (2020). Ocean Bottom Seismics. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_60-1

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