From transcurrent faulting to frontal subduction: A seismotectonic study of the Northern Caribbean Plate Boundary from Cuba to Puerto Rico

Tectonics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 114-123

  Calais, Eric ^a   Béthoux, Nicole ^a   de Lépinay, Bernard Mercier ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL MECHANISM; FRONTAL SUBDUCTION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; TRANSCURRENT FAULTING;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0026447997     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/91TC02364     Document Type: Article

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