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Travel-time Tables for the Seismic Wave PKP

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RECENTLY I published some contributions1,2 on the problem of the structure of the Earth's core. In the course of this work a considerable amount of observational material on the seismic core phase PKP was examined and empirical seismological travel-time tables for two branches of the PKP curve were derived from the observations. A number of seismologists have suggested that it would be useful to them if such tables were published.

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BOLT, B. Travel-time Tables for the Seismic Wave PKP. Nature 207, 967–969 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207967a0

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