From decades to epochs: Spanning the gap between geodesy and structural geology of active mountain belts

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1409-1422

  Allmendinger, Richard W ^a   Loveless, John P ^b   Pritchard, Matthew E ^a   Meade, Brendan ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Geodesy; GPS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ACTIVE TECTONICS; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; CYCLE MODEL; ELASTIC BLOCKS; FINITE STRAIN; GEODETIC DATA; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GPS; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; MOUNTAIN BELTS; OROGENIC BELTS; RIGID BLOCK; ROTATION RATE; SLIP RATES; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MINING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURVEYING; TECTONICS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GNSS; GPS; OROGENIC BELT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 70350702658     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.08.008     Document Type: Review

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