Reply to "Comment on 'A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc" by Marco Guzmán-Speziale and Juan Martín Gómez

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 7-1

  DeMets, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SHEAR STRESS; VOLCANOES; GEOPHYSICS;

TRENCHES;

GEOPHYSICS; EARTH SCIENCES;

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COCOS PLATE; CONVERGENCE; FAULT SLIP; PLATE MOTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

CONVERGENCE DIRECTIONS; COSTA RICA; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FOREARC; GUATEMALA; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCHES; PLATE MOTIONS; VOLCANIC ARC;

EID: 0037110239     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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