Secular crustal deformation and interplate coupling of the Japanese Islands as deduced from continuous GPS array, 1996-2001

Tectonophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 1-22

  El Fiky, Gamal ^a   Kato, Teruyuki ^b  

^a Zagazig Univ ^*  (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous GPS array; Crustal deformation; Interplate coupling; Japanese Islands

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 33746321655     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.04.021     Document Type: Article

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