GPS determined eastward Sundaland motion with respect to Eurasia confirmed by earthquakes slip vectors at Sunda and Philippine trenches

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 439-455

  Chamot Rooke, N ^a   Le Pichon, X ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Global positioning system; Movement; Plate tectonics; Southeast Asia; Sunda shelf

Indexed keywords

GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033573536     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00239-3     Document Type: Article

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