Extension on the Tibetan plateau: Recent normal faulting measured by InSAR and body wave seismology

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 503-535

  Elliott, J R ^a   Walters, R J ^a   England, P C ^a   Jackson, J A ^b   Li, Z ^c   Parsons, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Body waves; Continental tectonics: extensional; Radar interferometry; Satellite geodesy; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: EXTENSIONAL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALOS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; GEODESY; GPS; NORMAL FAULT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE MODELING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77958575109     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04754.x     Document Type: Article

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