Effect of subducting sea-floor roughness on fore-arc kinematics, Pacific coast, Costa Rica

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 467-470

  Fisher, Donald M ^a   Gardner, Thomas W ^b   Marshall, Jeffrey S ^a   Sak, Peter B ^a   Protti, Marino ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

BOUNDING FAULTS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FAULT KINEMATICS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FLUVIAL TERRACES; IN-COMING SEDIMENTS; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

PILES;

FOREARC; KINEMATICS; ROUGHNESS; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84879882182     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0467:EOSSFR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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