Trajectories of crustal deformation of Western Greece from GPS observations 1989-1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 677-680

  Kahle, Hans Gert ^a   Müller, Max V ^a   Veis, George ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; GPS; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRAJECTORY;

GREECE; ITALY;

EID: 0029773551     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00264     Document Type: Article

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