Twentieth century constraints on sea level change and earthquake deformation at Macquarie Island

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 781-796

  Watson, Christopher ^a   Burgette, Reed ^a   Tregoning, Paul ^b   White, Neil ^c   Hunter, John ^a   Coleman, Richard ^a,d   Handsworth, Roger ^e   Brolsma, Henk ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Oceanic transform and fracture zone processes; Rheology: mantle; Sea level change; Seismic cycle; Space geodetic surveys; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC CYCLE; SPACE GEODETIC SURVEYS; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; FRACTURE; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDFORMS; RHEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; SURVEYS; VISCOSITY;

SEA LEVEL;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE ZONE; GEODESY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE ISLAND;

EID: 77955155603     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04640.x     Document Type: Article

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