Incomplete separability of Antarctic plate rotation from glacial isostatic adjustment deformation within geodetic observations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 324-330

  King, Matt A ^a   Whitehouse, Pippa L ^b   van der Wal, Wouter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Plate motions; Space geodetic surveys; Tectonics and climatic interactions

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ROTATION; VELOCITY;

ANTARCTICA; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; PLATE MOTIONS; SOLID EARTH DEFORMATION; SPACE GEODETIC SURVEYS; TECTONICS AND CLIMATIC INTERACTIONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

DEFORMATION; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; ISOSTASY; PLATE MOTION; SOLID EARTH; TECTONICS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84958610073     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv461     Document Type: Article

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