Comment on "a new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc" by Charles DeMets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Guzmán Speziale, Marco ^a   Gómez, Juan Martín ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; VOLCANOES;

PLATE MOTIONS; RELATIVE MOTION; SURFACE FAULTING; VOLCANIC ARC;

FAULTING;

EID: 0037110251     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015011     Document Type: Article

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