A new high-resolution model for India-Capricorn motion since 20 Ma: Implications for the chronology and magnitude of distributed crustal deformation in the Central Indian Basin

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-345

  DeMets, C ^a   Royer, J Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

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