Constraints on present-day shortening rate across the central eastern Andes from GPS data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1031-1034

  Leffler, Lisa ^a   Stein, Seth ^a   Mao, Ailin ^b   Dixon, Timothy ^b   Ellis, Michael A ^c   Ocola, Leonidas ^d   Selwyn Sacks, I ^e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

ELASTIC STRAIN; GEOLOGIC FOLDS; GEOLOGIC THRUSTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS; LOCKS (FASTENERS);

GPS; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PERU, ANDES;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; ELASTIC STRAIN; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GPS DATA; SOUTH AMERICA; STANDARD ERRORS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EID: 0031147911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00770     Document Type: Article

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