Locked and loading megathrust linked to active subduction beneath the Indo-Burman Ranges

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 615-618

  Steckler, Michael S ^a   Mondal, Dhiman Ranjan ^b,c   Akhter, Syed Humayun ^d   Seeber, Leonardo ^a   Feng, Lujia ^e   Gale, Jonathan ^a   Hill, Emma M ^e   Howe, Michael ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; GPS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

BANGLADESH; GANGES DELTA; INDIA; INDO-BURMA; MYANMAR;

EID: 84980329184     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2760     Document Type: Article

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