The Adriatic region: An independent microplate within the Africa-Eurasia collision zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Battaglia, Maurizio ^a,b   Murray, Mark H ^a   Serpelloni, Enrico ^c   Bürgmann, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELASTIC STRAIN; GEODETIC DATA; MICROPLATES;

GEOPHYSICS;

COLLISION ZONE; GPS; KINEMATICS; MICROPLATE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 3543150779     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019723     Document Type: Article

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