Interseismic horizontal deformation in northern Honshu and its relationship with the subduction of the Pacific plate in the Japan trench

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3103-3106

  Shen Tu, Bingming ^a   Holt, William E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; VELOCITY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN RATE;

DISLOCATION MODELING; ELASTIC DISLOCATION MODELS; GEODETIC STRAIN; HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; PLATE INTERFACES; PRINCIPAL STRAIN; STRAIN RATE TENSORS;

STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS;

ELASTIC STRAINS; GEODETIC STRAIN FIELD; INTERSEISMIC HORIZONTAL DEFORMATION; PRINCIPAL STRAINS; SHEAR STRAINS; VELOCITY FIELDS;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; PLATE TECTONICS; STRAIN; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN, HONSHU;

EID: 0030292091     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02520     Document Type: Article

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