Estimates of motion and strain rates across active faults in the frontal part of eastern Himalayas in North Bengal from GPS measurements

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 410-415

  Mullick, Mallika ^a   Riguzzi, Federica ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Dhruba ^a  

^a Raman Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences   (India)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; STRAIN RATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 70350090636     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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