A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion:Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 4043-4046

  DeMets, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES;

GEOPHYSICS;

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COCOS PLATE; GPS; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SLIP;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 0035509809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013518     Document Type: Article

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