Geodetic evidence of back-arc spreading in the Mariana Trough

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Kato, Teruyuki ^a   Beavan, John ^b   Matsushima, Takeshi ^c   Kotake, Yoshiko ^a   Camacho, Juan T ^d   Nakao, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Emergency Management Office Saipan   (Northern Mariana Islands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; TECTONICS; GEOPHYSICS;

BACK-ARC SPREADING; BACK-ARC BASIN; CONVERGENCE RATES; EULER POLES; GPS SURVEY; MARIANA TROUGHS; PACIFIC PLATES; PHILIPPINE SEAS; VELOCITY VECTORS;

GEOPHYSICS; EARTH SCIENCES;

GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBMARINE TROUGH;

MARIANA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037697121     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016757     Document Type: Article

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