A GPS estimate of relative motion between North and South America

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 535-538

  Dixon, Timothy H ^a   Mao, Ailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; TECTONICS; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

EULER VECTOR; FRACTURE ZONE; GPS VELOCITIES; RELATIVE MOTION; RIGID-BODY MOTION; SOUTH AMERICA;

EARTH SCIENCES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EULER VECTORS; NORTH AMERICA; RELATIVE MOTION; SOUTH AMERICA;

CONVERGENCE; EULER VECTOR; EXTENSION; GPS; PLATE MOTION;

ATLANTIC, (EQUATORIAL); NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031103413     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00284     Document Type: Article

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