Bending the Bolivian orocline in real time

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 905-908

  Allmendinger, Richard W ^a   Smalley Jr , Robert ^b   Bevis, Michael ^c   Caprio, Holly ^a   Brooks, Benjamin ^d  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Andes; Global positioning system; Orocline; Paleomagnetism; Rotation

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; OROCLINE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; EXTRAPOLATION; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; STRESSES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS; TECTONIC ROTATION;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27744485847     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21779.1     Document Type: Article

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