Recent geodetic results in the Azores Triple Junctions region

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 683-699

  Fernandes, R M S ^a,c   Bastos, L ^b   Ambrosius, B A C ^a   Noomen, R ^a   Matheussen, S ^a   Baptista, P ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores Triple Junction; GPS processing; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GPS; PLATE MOTION; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542379548     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2469-y     Document Type: Article

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