How the continents deform: The evidence from tectonic geodesy

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 237-262

  Thatcher, Wayne ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental dynamics; Gps; Microplates; Plate tectonics; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DUCTILE PROPERTIES; ELASTIC BLOCKS; FLOW PROPERTIES; GPS; IRREGULAR BOUNDARY; MICROPLATES; PLATE TECTONICS; RELATIVE MOTION; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SPACE GEODESY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRENGTH DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE DEFORMATION; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME-SCALES;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVEYING;

TECTONICS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GEODESY; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERE; MAP; MICROPLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY;

EID: 67651012136     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100035     Document Type: Review

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