A continuous plate-tectonic model using geophysical data to estimate plate-margin widths, with a seismicity-based example

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 379-389

  Dumoulin, Caroline ^a,b   Bercovici, David ^a   Wessel, Pål ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Intraplate deformation; Plate boundaries; Plate tectonics; Toroidal poloidal partitioning

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL DATA; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0031843083     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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