Current plate motions.
Abstract
The authors determine best-fitting Euler vectors, closure-fitting Euler vectors, and a new global model (NUVEL-1) describing the geologically current motion between 12 assumed-rigid plates by inverting plate motion data which the authors have compiled, critically analysed, and tested for self-consistency.
- Publication:
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Geophysical Journal International
- Pub Date:
- May 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb06579.x
- Bibcode:
- 1990GeoJI.101..425D
- Keywords:
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- Earth Crust;
- Earthquakes;
- Geological Faults;
- Plates (Tectonics);
- Lithosphere;
- Models;
- Structural Properties (Geology);
- Subduction (Geology);
- Tectonics;
- Plate Tectonics: Earth