Current tectonics of northern Cascadia from a decade of GPS measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Mazzotti, Stéphane ^a   Dragert, Herb ^a,b   Henton, Joseph ^c   Schmidt, Michael ^a   Hyndman, Roy ^a,b   James, Thomas ^a,b   Lu, Yuan ^a   Craymer, Michael ^c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascadia; GPS; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; TECTONOPHYSICS;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1642302364     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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