Block-like plate movements in eastern Anatolia observed by InSAR

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-31

  Cavalié, Olivier ^a,b   Jõnsson, Sigurjõn ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

back slip model; geodesy; InSAR; interseismic deformation; plate motion; tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION GRADIENTS; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE MOTIONS; SLIP MODEL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; INTERFEROMETRY; PLATE MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANATOLIA; TURKEY;

EID: 84896702104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058170     Document Type: Article

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