The Greenland earthquake of 11 July 1987 and postglacial fault reactivation along a passive margin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1058-1068

  Chung, Wai Ying ^a   Gao, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS; FAULT REACTIVATION; GREENLAND EARTHQUAKE 1987; PASSIVE MARGIN; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SEISMIC SOURCE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031405449     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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