North American dynamics and western U.S. tectonics
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North American Dynamics Andwestern U.s. Tectonics
[1] Interest and controversy exist on the origin of forces that move and tectonically deform plates, especially regarding the relative importance of loads applied to the plate margins and base and those created internally (e.g., by elevated potential energy in uplifted regions). To quantify these loads, we evaluate predicted interplate stress through two-dimensional finite element analysis of t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reviews of Geophysics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 8755-1209
DOI: 10.1029/2005rg000181