The signature of an unbalanced earthquake cycle in Himalayan topography?

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 987-990

  Meade, Brendan J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL EROSION; CHANNEL PROFILE; CONSTRAINED MODELS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; CYCLE PROCESS; FAULT SYSTEM; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; RELATIVE MOTION; ROCK UPLIFT RATES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; THRUST FAULTS;

DEFORMATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; GEODESY; INDIAN PLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRUST FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 78249233229     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31439.1     Document Type: Article

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