PLACA: A white box for plate reconstruction and best-fit pole determination

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 437-452

  Matias, Luis Manuel ^a   Olivet, Jean Louis ^b   Aslanian, Daniel ^b   Fidalgo, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence region; Fortran; Plate tectonics; Precision; Tectonophysics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIZATION; STATISTICS; VOLCANOES;

MID OCEANIC RIDGES (MOR); PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; RIGID PLATE TECTONICS THEORY; WHITE BOX;

TECTONICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PLATE TECTONICS; SIMULATION; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

EID: 15444379309     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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