Ongoing deformation of Antarctica following recent Great Earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1918-1927

  King, Matt A ^a   Santamariá Gómez, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

DORIS; glacial isostatic adjustment; GPS; postseismic deformation; viscoelastic deformation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; VISCOELASTICITY;

DORIS; FURTHER DEFORMATIONS; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEFORMATIONS; VISCOELASTIC DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; DORIS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; PLATE MOTION; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MACQUARIE RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84959906336     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067773     Document Type: Article

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