John W. Morgan, Peter B. Shalen, Degenerations of Hyperbolic Structures, III: Actions of 3-Manifold Groups on Trees and Thurston's Compactness Theorem, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 127, No. 3 (May, 1988), pp. 457-519
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