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1LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, PALISADES, NEW YORK
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Also at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
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This research was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and was monitored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract AF49(638)-1355. Contribution no. 838 of the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University.