Modeling broadscale deformation in northern California and Nevada from plate motions and elastic strain accumulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 4315-4318

  Murray, Mark H ^a,b   Segall, Paul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC HALF SPACE; ELASTIC STRAIN; FIRST ORDER METHOD; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RIGID-BODY MOTION; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; TECTONIC MOTION;

FAULTING;

EID: 0043203079     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013373     Document Type: Article

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