Long-term growth of the Himalaya inferred from interseismic InSAR measurement

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1059-1062

  Grandin, Raphaël ^a   Doin, Marie Pierre ^a   Bollinger, Laurent ^b   Pinel Puysségur, Béatrice ^b   Ducret, Gabriel ^a   Jolivet, Romain ^c   Sapkota, Soma Nath ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UMR 7327   (France)

^d National Seismological Centre   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN PLATE; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MAIN HIMALAYAN THRUSTS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; SLIP RATES; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; TOPOGRAPHIC SCARPS; TRANSITION ZONES; UNDERPLATING; VERTICAL DEFORMATION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; INDIAN PLATE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SLIP RATE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRUST; UNDERPLATING; UPLIFT;

ANNAPURNA; GANDAKI; HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 84872148863     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33154.1     Document Type: Article

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