Limitations of strain estimation techniques from discrete deformation observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Baxter, Sean C ^a   Kedar, Sharon ^a   Parker, Jay W ^a   Webb, Frank H ^a   Owen, Susan E ^a   Sibthorpe, Ant ^a   Dong, Danan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

ALIASED; DEFORMATION FIELD; DIRECT USE; DISCRETE DEFORMATION; DRIVING MECHANISM; GEODETIC DEFORMATION; MODEL FREE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SAMPLING NETWORK; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPATIAL SCALE; STRAIN ESTIMATION; TECTONIC MODELS;

STRAIN RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODETIC DATUM; HETEROGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 78651292350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046028     Document Type: Article

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