Distribution of the Pacific/North America motion in the Queen Charlotte Islands-S. Alaska plate boundary zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Mazzotti, Stéphane ^a   Hyndman, Roy D ^a,b   Flück, Paul ^b   Smith, Alex J ^b   Schmidt, Michael ^a  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR STRESS; TECTONICS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CONVERGENCE DISTRIBUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; GPS DATA; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MOTIONS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSIENT MOTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

GPS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ALASKA; QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141872938     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017586     Document Type: Article

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