A continuum of stress, strength and slip in the Cascadia subduction zone

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 624-628

  Wech, Aaron G ^a,b   Creager, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE;

CASCADE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052325131     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1215     Document Type: Article

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