Guadalupe Island, Mexico as a new constraint for Pacific plate motion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Gonzalez Garcia, J J ^a   Prawirodirdjo, L ^b   Bock, Y ^b   Agnew, D ^b  

^a Ctro de Invest Cientifica y Educ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RIGIDITY;

ANGULAR VELOCITY;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

BAJA CALIFORNIA STATE; GUADALUPE ISLAND; MEXICO;

EID: 0344961725     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017732     Document Type: Article

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