Continental deformation in Asia from a combined GPS solution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Calais, E ^a   Dong, L ^a   Wang, M ^b   Shen, Z ^c   Vergnolle, Mathilde ^d,e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERPOLATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; PERVASIVE STRAIN;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULTING; GEODESY; INTERPOLATION; MICROPLATE; MODELING; STRAIN RATE;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 34247611150     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028433     Document Type: Article

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