Present-day plate motions
An instantaneous plate-motion model, Relative Motion 2 (RM2), is obtained by inverting a data set comprising 110 spreading rates, 78 transform fault azimuths, and 142 earthquake slip vectors. RM2 is compared with angular velocity vectors which best fit the data along individual plate boundaries and,...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19790031861 2023-05-15T13:34:36+02:00 Present-day plate motions Minster, J. B. Jordan, T. H. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Nov 10, 1978 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19790031861 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19790031861 Accession ID: 79A15874 Copyright Other Sources 46 Journal of Geophysical Research; 83; Nov. 10 1978 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T13:49:28Z An instantaneous plate-motion model, Relative Motion 2 (RM2), is obtained by inverting a data set comprising 110 spreading rates, 78 transform fault azimuths, and 142 earthquake slip vectors. RM2 is compared with angular velocity vectors which best fit the data along individual plate boundaries and, while the model performs close to optimally in most regions, attention is directed to those regions which are not suitably described by the model. Reasons for the discrepancies between RM2 and observations for the India-Antarctica plate boundary, the Pacific-India plate boundary, and the east-west trending transform fault azimuths observed in the French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study area are discussed. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Pacific |
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An instantaneous plate-motion model, Relative Motion 2 (RM2), is obtained by inverting a data set comprising 110 spreading rates, 78 transform fault azimuths, and 142 earthquake slip vectors. RM2 is compared with angular velocity vectors which best fit the data along individual plate boundaries and, while the model performs close to optimally in most regions, attention is directed to those regions which are not suitably described by the model. Reasons for the discrepancies between RM2 and observations for the India-Antarctica plate boundary, the Pacific-India plate boundary, and the east-west trending transform fault azimuths observed in the French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study area are discussed. |
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