Seismotectonics of the Pamir

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1501-1518

  Schurr, Bernd ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^b   Sippl, Christian ^a,c   Gloaguen, Richard ^b,d   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Mechie, James ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRUSTAL EARTHQUAKES; DEFORMATION PATTERN; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; LATERAL EXTRUSION; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; SEISMIC DEFORMATION; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

FAULT SLIPS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOMENT TENSOR; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PAMIRS;

EID: 84905301476     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014TC003576     Document Type: Article

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