Subduction in the Indo-Burma region: is it still active?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3189-3192

  Satyabala, S P ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGY; MAPS; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

SUBDUCTIONS; INDIAN PLATE; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; STRESS REGIME; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME-PERIODS; WADATI-BENIOFF ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES; TECTONICS;

PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA;

EID: 0032529763     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02256     Document Type: Article

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