Present-day velocity and stress fields of the Amurian Plate from thin-shell finite-element modelling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 358-370

  Petit, Carole ^a   Fournier, Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Amurian Plate; Asian deformation; Finite element models; GPS; Stress field

Indexed keywords

GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; VELOCITY;

EID: 13344269644     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02486.x     Document Type: Article

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