Rise of the central Andean coast by earthquakes straddling the Moho

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 401-407

  Melnick, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAST; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GPS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPLIFT;

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EID: 84971351115     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2683     Document Type: Article

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