Current tectonics of the Tonga-New Hebrides region

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 263-276

  Pelletier, Bernard ^a   Calmant, Stephane ^b   Pillet, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Fiji; Plate convergence; Plate tectonics; Subduction; Tonga; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA; VANUATU;

EID: 0032535808     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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