Motion of continental slivers and creeping subduction in the northern Andes

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 287-291

  Nocquet, J M ^a   Villegas Lanza, J C ^a,b   Chlieh, M ^a,c   Mothes, P A ^d   Rolandone, F ^e   Jarrin, P ^d   Cisneros, D ^f   Alvarado, A ^d   Audin, L ^g   Bondoux, F ^h   Martin, X ^a   Font, Y ^a,d   Regnier M ^a   Vallee M ^a,k   Tran, T ^a   Beauval, C ^g   Maguina Mendoza J M ⁱ   Martinez, W ^j   Tavera, H ^b   Yepes, H ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Peru)

^d ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

^e Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^f Instituto Geografico Militar IGM   (Ecuador)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

ⁱ Instituto Geográfico Nacional del Perú IGN   (Peru)

^j Inst Geografico Agustin Codazzi   (Colombia)

^k INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; OBLIQUITY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION;

ANDES; ECUADOR; GULF OF GUAYAQUIL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; PERU;

EID: 84897134749     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2099     Document Type: Article

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