Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7116, 2006, Pages 165-170

  Feldl, Nicole ^a   Bilham, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN;

INDOG-ASIAN COLLISION; RESIDUAL STRAIN; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; GEOMETRY; SEISMICITY;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

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

EID: 33750878281     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05199     Document Type: Article

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