The RING network: Improvements to a GPS velocity field in the central Mediterranean

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 39-54

  Avallone, Antonio ^a   Selvaggi, Giulio ^a   D'Anastasio, Elisabetta ^a   D'Agostino, Nicola ^a   Pietrantonio, Grazia ^a   Riguzzi, Federica ^a   Serpelloni, Enrico ^a   Anzidei, Marco ^a   Casula, Giuseppe ^a   Cecere, Gianpaolo ^a   D'Ambrosio, Ciriaco ^a   De Martino, Prospero ^a   Devoti, Roberto ^a   Falco, Luigi ^a   Mattia, Mario ^a   Rossi, Massimo ^a   Obrizzo, Francesco ^a   Tammaro, Umberto ^a   Zarrilli, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOLOGY;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 77956213913     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4549     Document Type: Article

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