GPS applications for geodynamics and earthquake studies

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue , 1997, Pages 301-336

  Segall, Paul ^a   Davis, James L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Plate motions; Postglacial rebound; Space geodesy; Volcanos

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; GEODESY; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; PLATE MOTION; TECTONICS; VOLCANO;

EID: 0030707898     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.25.1.301     Document Type: Article

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