Transpression between two warm mafic plates: The Queen Charlotte Fault revisited

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8147-8172

  Rohr, Kristin M M ^a,c   Scheidhauer, Maren ^b,d   Trehu, Anne M ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rohr Geophysics   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; TRANSPRESSION;

EID: 0034629841     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900403     Document Type: Article

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