Testing for fault activity at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, using independent GPS results from the BARGEN network

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Hill, Emma M ^a,b   Blewitt, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS;

EASTERN CALIFORNIA SHEAR ZONE (ECSZ); FAULT PARAMETERS; TECTONIC SIGNALS;

DATA PROCESSING;

FAULT SLIP; GPS; INVERSION LAYER; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 33845646746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026140     Document Type: Article

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