Magallanes-Fagnano continental transform fault (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America)

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Lodolo, Emanuele ^a   Menichetti, Marco ^b   Bartole, Roberto ^c   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^d   Tassone, Alejandro ^e   Lippai, Horacio ^e  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Geophysical data; Magallanes Fagnano fault system; Remote sensing images; Strike slip tectonics; Tierra del Fuego region

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMICITY; TECTONOPHYSICS; TRANSFORM FAULT;

SOUTH AMERICA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 1842585026     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001500     Document Type: Article

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