Current plate motion across the Dead Sea Fault from three years of continuous GPS monitoring

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Pe'Eri, Shachak ^a   Wdowinski, Shimon ^a   Shtibelman, Alon ^a   Bechor, Noa ^a   Bock, Yehuda ^b   Nikolaidis, Rosanne ^b   Van Domselaar, Matthijs ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ARABIAN PLATES; CONTINUOUS GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS; CURRENT DISPLACEMENT; CURRENT PLATE MOTIONS; DEAD SEA FAULTS; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PARALLEL COMPONENT; POSITION ESTIMATES;

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EID: 0037101714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013879     Document Type: Article

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