GPS constraints on vertical crustal motion in the northern Basin and Range

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Bennett, Richard A ^a   Hreinsdóttir, Sigrún ^a   Velasco, M Soledad ^a   Fay, Noah P ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

INTRACONTINENTAL NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE (RMS);

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GPS; NORMAL FAULT;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 38949171698     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031515     Document Type: Article

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