What drives short-and long-term crustal deformation in the southwestern United States?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Youqing ^a   Liu, Mian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DRIVING FORCES; GPS DATA; PERMANENT DEFORMATIONS; REGIONAL SCALE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SHORT TERM; TIME-SCALES; LONG-TERM DEFORMATION;

GEODYNAMICS;

EID: 79951473437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041598     Document Type: Article

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