Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 809-812

  Zhang, Pei Zhen ^a,b   Shen, Zhengkang ^a,c   Wang, Min ^a   Gan, Weijun ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^d   Molnar, Peter ^e   Wang, Qi ^f   Niu, Zhijun ^f   Sun, Jianzhong ^f   Wu, Jianchun ^f   Hanrong, Sun ^f   Xinzhao, You ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous deformation; Flow of crustal material; Rigid block; Tibetan Plateau; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC STRAIN; PLATEAU; THRUST FAULTS;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; STRAIN; TECTONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; PLATEAU; TECTONIC SETTING; VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 4744363348     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20554.1     Document Type: Article

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