Tectonic plate coupling and elastic thickness derived from the inversion of a steady state viscoelastic model using geodetic data: Application to southern North Island, New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Cohen, Steven C ^a   Darby, Desmond J ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Lithospheric thickness; New Zealand; Viscoelastic model inversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 0038503607     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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