Mountain Building: From Earthquakes to Geologic Deformation

Treatise on Geophysics: Second Edition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 381-432

  Avouac, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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