Astrometric and space-geodetic observations of polar wander

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2085-2088

  Gross, Richard S ^a   Vondrák, Jan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; STARS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; GEODESY;

ASTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; EARTH'S CRUST; EARTH'S ROTATION; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; POLAR MOTION; STAR CATALOGS; STAR POSITIONS; TRUE POLAR WANDER; EARTH'S ROTATION POLE; HIPPARCOS POLAR MOTION SERIES; OPTICAL ASTROMETRY; POLAR WANDERING;

POLES; TECTONICS;

EARTH ROTATION; GEODESY; POLAR WANDERING;

EID: 0032694210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900422     Document Type: Article

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