Geometry and state of stress of the Nazca plate beneath Bolivia and its implication for the evolution of the Bolivian orocline

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 387-390

  Tinker, Mark Andrew ^a   Wallace, Terry C ^a   Beck, Susan L ^a   Myers, Stephen ^a   Papanikolas, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

BOLIVIAN OROCLINE; CONVERGENCE DIRECTIONS; DEEP EARTHQUAKES; DYNAMIC EVOLUTION; HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION; SOUTH AMERICA; STATE OF STRESS; WADATI-BENIOFF ZONES; NAZCA PLATE;

GEOMETRY;

GEOMETRY; NAZCA PLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; OROCLINE; SLAB GEOMETRY; SUBDUCTED SLAB;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0029752778     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0387:GASOSO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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