Spatial variations in present-day deformation, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and their implications

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8079-8101

  Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^a   Cohen, Steven C ^b   Fletcher, Hilary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ALASKA; KENAI PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034629860     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900388     Document Type: Article

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