Contemporary uplift of the Sierra Nevada, western United States, from GPS and inSAR measurements

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 667-670

  Hammond, William C ^a   Blewitt, Geoffrey ^a   Li, Zhenhong ^b   Plag, Hans Peter ^a   Kreemer, Corné ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CENTER OF MASS; EARTH'S SURFACE; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HIGH-PRECISION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LINE-OF-SIGHT; SIERRA NEVADA; SPACE GEODESY; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; THREE-COMPONENT; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

GEODESY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ELEVATION; GEODESY; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864302280     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32968.1     Document Type: Article

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