Present-day movements of tectonic blocks in the Betic-Rif Arc from GPS measurements 1999-2005;Mouvements actuels des blocs tectoniques dans l'arc Bético-Rifain à partir des mesures GPS entre 1999 et 2005

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 400-413

  Tahayt, Abdelilah ^a,b   Mourabit, Taoufik ^a   Rigo, Alexis ^b   Feigl, Kurt L ^b   Fadil, Abdelali ^c   McClusky, Simon ^d   Reilinger, Robert ^d   Serroukh, Mostafa ^a   Ouazzani Touhami, Abdelouahed ^a   Sari, Driss Ben ^c   Vernant, Philippe ^d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EURASIAN PLATE; GPS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

AFRICA; NUBIA;

EID: 45849144742     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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