Deformation of the Caribbean region: One plate or two?

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1043-1046

  Driscoll, Neal W ^a   Diebold, John B ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNLOADING;

ACCOMMODATION ZONE; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FAULT REACTIVATION; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC DATUM; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

DEFORMATION;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 84879886153     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1043:DOTCRO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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