InSAR observations of low slip rates on the major faults of western Tibet

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5681, 2004, Pages 236-239

  Wright, Tim J ^a   Parsons, Barry ^a   England, Philip C ^a   Fielding, Eric J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CRUSTAL BLOCKS; SLIP RATES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; DEFORMITY; EARTHQUAKE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 3042845895     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096388     Document Type: Article

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33. Supported by the Natural Environment Research. Council through the Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics as well as a research fellowship to T.J.W. We are grateful to the European Space Agency for providing the ERS SAR: data used, and to NASA for the SRTM topography. Part of this research was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) under contract with NASA. We thank JPL/Caltech for the use of the ROI_pac software to generate our interferograms and S. Lamb, R. Phillips, J. Jackson, and two anonymous reviewers for comments that have improved the manuscript. Some figures were prepared using the public-domain GMT software.