Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.2041k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 14, p. 2041-2044
Physics
36
Geodesy And Gravity: Crustal Movements-Interplate, Geodesy And Gravity: Crustal Movements-Intraplate, Geodesy And Gravity: Space Geodetic Surveys, Geodesy And Gravity: Terrestrial Reference Systems
Scientific paper
GPS observations in northeastern Asia, when combined with observations from the global network for the period 1992-1999, yield an angular rotation vector between Eurasia and North America consistent with and a factor of two more precise than estimates derived using GPS or VLBI data previously available from only western Eurasia. The new vector implies a pole of relative rotation 1200 km more to the northwest than predicted by the NUVEL-1A global plate model, suggesting a significant change in the relative motion of Eurasia and North America over the past 3 Myr. The standard deviations of horizontal velocities from rigid plate motion for nineteen stations in Eurasia and ten in North America are less than 1 mm/yr; the observations place an upper bound of 2 mm/yr at 95% confidence for relative motion between western and eastern Eurasia.
Egorov Sergei G.
Frolov Dmitry I.
Herring Thomas A.
Jones Angus
King Robert W.
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