GPS measurements from the Ladakh Himalaya, India: Preliminary tests of plate-like or continuous deformation in Tibet

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1385-1391

  Jade, Sridevi ^a   Bhatt, B C ^b   Yang, Z ^c   Bendick, R ^d,e   Gaur, V K ^a,b   Molnar, P ^d   Anand, M B ^a   Kumar, Dilip ^a  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^c CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuum mechanics; Geodesy; Geodynamics; Himalaya; Karakorum; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; INDIA; LADAKH;

DEFORMATION; EXTRAPOLATION; GEOLOGY; MEASUREMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; GPS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; LADAKH HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 9244249129     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25357.1     Document Type: Article

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