The dynamics of cenozoic and mesozoic plate motions

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-78

  Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^a,c   Richards, Mark A ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DYNAMICS; FAULTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INDIUM PLATING; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRESSES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISONS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC HETEROGENEITY; SELF CONSISTENT MODELING; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; THERMO-CHEMICAL BOUNDARY LAYER; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0031803946     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RG02282     Document Type: Article

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