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Geosciences of Azerbaijan

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Geophysical monitoring of oil and gas pipelines (primarily in Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) and South Caucasus pipelines (SCP).

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    Akif A. Alizadeh, Ibrahim S. Guliyev & Fakhraddin A. Kadirov

  2. Faculty of Exact Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Lev V. Eppelbaum

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Alizadeh, A.A., Guliyev, I.S., Kadirov, F.A., Eppelbaum, L.V. (2017). Engineering, Environmental, and Archaeological Geophysics. In: Geosciences of Azerbaijan. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40493-6_9

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