Asymmetric deformation across the San Francisco Bay Area faults from GPS observations in Northern California

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 143-153

  Houlie N ^a,b   Romanowicz, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Elasticity; Geodesy; San andreas fault; Seismic cycle; Seismology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GEODESY; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ASYMMETRIC MOTION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; REGIONAL DEFORMATIONS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SEISMIC CYCLE; SEISMOLOGICAL DATA;

STRAIN RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEODETIC DATUM; GPS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952735000     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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