The contemporary tectonic strain rate field of continental China predicted from GPS measurements and its geodynamic implications

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1477-1493

  Zhu, Shoubiao ^a,b   Cai, Yongen ^b   Shi, Yaolin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese continent; GPS measurements; Kriging method; Strain rate field

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GPS; KRIGING; STRAIN RATE;

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

EID: 33747354670     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0087-1     Document Type: Article

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