Contemporary crustal deformation around the southeast borderland of the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Shen, Zheng Kang ^a,b   Lü, Jiangning ^c   Wang, Min ^d   Bürgmann, Roland ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GPS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 30144438428     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003421     Document Type: Review

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