Is the Shanxi rift of northern China extending?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  He, Jiankun ^a   Liu, Mian ^b   Li, Yanxing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DATA REDUCTION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY; GEOLOGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMICITY; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL MOTIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTENSION RATES; GPS VELOCITIES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; NORTHERN CHINA;

GEOPHYSICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GPS; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANXI RIFT;

EID: 1542307216     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018764     Document Type: Article

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