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Kogan et al. 2000
Kogan, M.G., Steblov, G.M., King, R.W., Herring, T.A., Frolov, D.I., Egorov, S.G., Ye. Levin, V., Lerner-Lam, A. and Jones, A. (2000). Geodetic constraints on the rigidity and relative motion of Eurasia and North America. Geophysical Research Letters 27: doi: 10.1029/2000GL011422. issn: 0094-8276.

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.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Geodesy and Gravity, Terrestrial reference systems
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