Plate rigidity inversion in southern California using interseismic GPS velocity field

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 783-796

  Chery J ^a   Mohammadi, B ^b   Peyret, M ^a   Joulain, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Inverse theory; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Seismic cycle

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; CONTINUOUS MAPPINGS; DISCRETE SETS; EFFECTIVE RIGIDITY; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GPS VELOCITY FIELD; INVERSE THEORY; INVERSION METHODS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC CYCLE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VELOCITY FIELD;

COST FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; VELOCITY;

RIGIDITY;

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GPS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; OPTIMIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054697184     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05192.x     Document Type: Article

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