Crustal deformation in the Baikal rift from GPS measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4003-4006

  Calais, Eric ^a,e   Lesne, Olivia ^a,e   Déverchère, Jacques ^a,e   San'kov, Vladimir ^b   Lukhnev, Andrei ^b   Miroshnitchenko, Andrei ^b   Buddo, Vladimir ^b   Levi, Kirill ^b   Zalutzky, Vjacheslav ^c   Bashkuev, Yuri ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c VS NIIFTRI   (Russian Federation)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TECTONICS; VECTORS;

BAIKAL RIFT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC MOMENT; TECTONICS;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0032216015     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900067     Document Type: Article

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