Motion of the South Bismark Plate, Papua New Guinea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3517-3520

  Tregoning, Paul ^a   Jackson, Russell J ^b   McQueen, Herbert ^a   Lambeck, Kurt ^a   Stevens, Colleen ^c   Little, Rodney P ^b   Curley, Robert ^b   Rosa, Robert ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Papua New Guinea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d National Mapping Bureau   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; GPS; MICROPLATE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TECTONICS;

PLATE MOTION;

GEODESY;

EID: 0033237749     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010840     Document Type: Article

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