Toward a better understanding of the Late Neogene strike-slip restraining bend in Jamaica: Geodetic, geological, and seismic constraints

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 290, Issue , 2007, Pages 239-253

  Mann, Paul ^a   DeMets, C ^b   Wiggins Grandison, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEODESY; GPS; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; RIFT ZONE; STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

EID: 38549119371     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP290.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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