Extension in Mona Passage, Northeast Caribbean

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 74-92

  Chaytor, Jason D ^a   ten Brink, Uri S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Earthquakes; Geomorphology; Oblique extension; Seismic reflection

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; EXTENSION MODELS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOREARC; GEODETIC DATA; GPS DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; NORMAL FAULTS; OBLIQUE EXTENSION; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; OLIGOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLIOCENE; PUERTO RICO; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TSUNAMI HAZARDS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

BATHYMETRY;

BATHYMETRY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NORMAL FAULT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; MONA PASSAGE; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 77958034156     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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