Does Kamchatka belong to North America? An extruding Okhotsk block suggested by coastal neotectonics of the Ozernoi Peninsula, Kamchatka, Russia

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 353-356

  Pedoja, Kevin ^a,b   Bourgeois, Joanne ^c   Pinegina, Tatiana ^d   Higman, Bretwood ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Kamchatka; Neotectonics; Okhotsk; Plate tectonics; Quaternary marine terraces

Indexed keywords

COASTAL NEOTECTONICS; KAMCHATKA; OKHOTSK BLOCK; QUATERNARY MARINE TERRACES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

NEOTECTONICS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

BERING SEA; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33646781288     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22062.1     Document Type: Article

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