Reconstructing plate-motion changes in the presence of finite-rotations noise

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Iaffaldano, Giampiero ^a   Bodin, Thomas ^b   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAYES THEOREM; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INDIAN OCEAN; KINEMATICS; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; ROTATION;

EID: 84866972076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2051     Document Type: Article

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