Seafloor geodesy

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 509-534

  Bürgmann, Roland ^a   Chadwell, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal deformation; Earthquakes; Reservoir monitoring; Submarine volcanoes

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GEODETIC TECHNIQUE; MOTION AND DEFORMATIONS; REGIONAL DEFORMATIONS; RESERVOIR MONITORING; SEISMIC MEASUREMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GEODESY; MASS MOVEMENT; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; SEAFLOOR; SENSOR; TECTONIC PHENOMENA; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84902181508     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054953     Document Type: Review

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