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Dixon et al. 1991

Dixon, T.H., Gonzalez, G., Lichten, S.M., Tralli, D.M., Ness, G.E. and Dauphin, J.P. (1991). Preliminary determination of Pacfic-North America relative motion in the southern Gulf of Calfornia using the Global Positioning System. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL01062. issn: 0094-8276.

Global Positioning System (GPS) data from experiments conducted in 1985 and 1989 in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico, allow a determination of relative motion between the Pacific and North American plates. The data indicate motion of Cabo San Lucas on the Pacific plate relative to North America at a rate of 47¿7 mm/yr and azimuth of 57¿6¿ west of north (1&sgr; errors), equivalent within uncertainties to the NUVEL-1 global plate motion model. ¿American Geophysical Union 1991

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Keywords
Tectonophysics, Plate motions, past and present, Tectonophysics, Plate boundary structures and processes, Geodesy and Gravity, Crustal movements

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Geophysical Research Letters
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