Geodetic Determination of Relative Plate Motion and Crustal Deformation Across the Scotia-South America Plate Boundary in Eastern Tierra Del Fuego
Article Geochemistry 3 Volume 4, Number 9 Geophysics 19 September 2003 1070, doi:10.1029/2002GC000446 GeosystemsG G ISSN: 1525-2027 AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE EARTH SCIENCES Published by AGU and the Geochemical Society Geodetic determination of relative plate motion and crustal deformation across the Scotia-South America plate boundary in eastern Tierra del Fuego R. Smalley, Jr. Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, 3876 Central Avenue, Ste. 1, Memphis, Tennessee 38152, USA (rsmalley@memphis.edu) E. Kendrick and M. G. Bevis School of Ocean, Earth and Space Technology, University of Hawaii, 1680 East West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA (kendrick@soest.hawaii.edu; bevis@hawaii.edu) I. W. D. Dalziel and F. Taylor Institute of Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 4412 Spicewood Springs Road, Building 600, Austin, Texas 78759, USA (ian@utig.ig.utexas.edu; fred@utig.ig.utesas.edu) E. Laurı´a Instituto Geogra´fico Militar de Argentina, Cabildo 381, 1426 Buenos Aires, Argentina (jdivgeod@mapas.igm.gov.ar) R. Barriga Instituto Geogra´fico Militar de Chile, Nueva Santa Isabel 1640, Santiago, Chile (rbarriga@igm.cl) G. Casassa Centro de Estudios Cientı´ficos, Avda. Arturo Prat 514, Casilla 1469, Valdivia, Chile (gcasassa@cecs.cl) E. Olivero and E. Piana Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientı´ficas, Av. Malvinas Argentinas s/n, Caja de Correo 92, 9410 Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (emolivero@ciudad.com.ar; arqueologia@tierradelfuego.org.ar) [1] Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements provide the first direct measurement of plate motion and crustal deformation across the Scotia-South America transform plate boundary in Tierra del Fuego.
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