Fractal plate tectonics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Sornette, Didier ^a,b   Pisarenko, Vladilen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTH (PLANET); PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EARTH DYNAMICS;

TECTONICS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PLATE TECTONICS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0038674984     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015043     Document Type: Article

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