Local and regional components of western Aegean deformation extracted from 100 years of geodetic displacement measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 623-639

  Curtis, Andrew ^a,b   England, Philip ^a   Davies, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aegean; Deformation; Earthquake; Elastic strain; Global Positioning System (GPS)

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GEODESY; GPS; SEISMICITY; STRAIN; STRESS FIELD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, AEGEAN SEA;

EID: 0031442750     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01857.x     Document Type: Article

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