Millimeter-level precision in a seafloor geodesy experiment at the Discovery transform fault, East Pacific Rise

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4392-4402

  McGuire, Jeffrey J ^a   Collins, John A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

oceanic transform fault; seafloor geodesy

Indexed keywords

EAST PACIFIC RISE; GEODETIC MONITORING; GEODETIC TECHNIQUE; HIGH-RESOLUTION MONITORING; MILLIMETER LEVELS; OCEANIC TRANSFORM; PHYSICAL STABILITY; SEAFLOOR GEODESY;

EXPERIMENTS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); TRANSFORM FAULTS;

GEODESY;

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GEODETIC DATUM; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84889031602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20225     Document Type: Article

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