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Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Mining Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

   Siavash Salarian

2. Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

   Behrooz Oskooi

3. Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

   Kamran Mostafaei

4. Division of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

   Maxim Y. Smirnov

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by S.S and B.O. The first draft of the manuscript was written by S.S and B.O, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Behrooz Oskooi.

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Communicated by Hassan Babaie.

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