Motion partitioning between the Pacific plate, Baja California and the North America plate: The Tosco-Abreojos fault revisited

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Michaud, F ^a   Sosson, M ^a   Royer, J Y ^b   Chabert, A ^a   Bourgois, J ^a   Calmus, T ^c   Mortera, C ^c   Bigot Cormier, F ^a   Bandy, W ^c   Dyment, J ^d   Pontoise, B ^a   Sichler, B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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

^e IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

MOTION PARTITIONING; SEISMIC PROFILES;

GEOPHYSICS;

PARTITIONING; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 3042799512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019665     Document Type: Article

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