A geodynamic framework for eastern Mediterranean kinematics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4007-4010

  Lundgren, Paul ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^b   Russo, Raymond M ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; SPACE GEODETIC VECTORS;

GEODESY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; PLATE MOTION; TECTONICS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0032216042     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900096     Document Type: Article

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