Earthquake cycle dominates contemporary crustal deformation in Central and Southern Andes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 193, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 437-446

  Klotz, Jürgen ^a   Khazaradze, Giorgi ^a   Angermann, Detlef ^a   Reigber, Christoph ^a   Perdomo, Raul ^b   Cifuentes, Oscar ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Inst Geografico Militar de Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

Crustal thickening; Global Positioning System; Plate coupling decoupling; Postseismic relaxation; Southern Andes; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EARTHQUAKE; GPS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0035681792     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00532-5     Document Type: Article

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