Crustal deformation on the Chinese mainland during 1998–2014 based on GPS data

Geodesy and Geodynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-15

  Zhao, Bin ^a,b   Huang, Yong ^a   Zhang, Caihong ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Tan, Kai ^a   Du, Rinlin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese mainland; Coseismic deformation; Error analysis; Postseismic deformation; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973911019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16749847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geog.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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