Decelerating Nazca-South America and Nazca-Pacific plate motions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3405-3408

  Norabuena, Edmundo O ^a   Dixon, Timothy H ^a   Stein, Seth ^b   Harrison, Christopher G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FRICTION; TECTONICS; GEOPHYSICS;

SPACE GEODESY;

GEODESY; EARTH SCIENCES;

GEODESY; NAZCA PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC PLATES; SOUTH AMERICA; VISCOUS DRAG;

EID: 0033570673     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005394     Document Type: Article

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