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Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 159-163

  Lacassin, Robin ^a   Valli, Franck ^a   Arnaud, Nicolas ^b   Leloup, P Hervé ^c   Paquette, Jean Louis ^d   Haibing, Li ^a,e   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Chevalier, Marie Luce ^a   Guillot, Stephane ^c   Maheo, Gweltaz ^c   Zhiqin, Xu ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT; KINEMATICS;

EID: 19944372032     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.07.045     Document Type: Note

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