Computer simulations of Alaskan neotectonics

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-236

  Bird, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANELASTIC STRAIN; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MANTLE CREEP; NEOTECTONICS;

BERING SEA; USA, ALASKA;

EID: 0029768968     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC02426     Document Type: Article

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