Dynamic Processes in Extensional and Compressional Settings - Mountain Building: From Earthquakes to Geological Deformation

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 377-439

  Avouac, J P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics; Contractional orogenic belts; Folds and folding; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Satellite Geodesy; Seismic cycle related deformations; Seismotectonics; Stresses: crust and lithosphere; Tectonics and climatic interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878918434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00112-7     Document Type: Chapter

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