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Yang & Liu 2002
Yang, Y. and Liu, M. (2002). Deformation of convergent plates: Evidence from discrepancies between GPS velocities and rigid-plate motions. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2001GL013391. issn: 0094-8276.

Systematic discrepancies between the Global Positioning System (GPS) site velocities and those predicted by plate-motion models across the Andes, the Himalayan-Tibetan plateau, and the Taiwan orogen delineate diffuse plate-boundary deformation and significant intraplate deformation, even in the presumably rigid oceanic plates. The relationship between the GPS velocities and the predictions of plate-motion models is illustrated using a simple timescale-dependent mechanical model of plate convergence. A simple stiffness number (φ), based on the difference between the predictions of plate-motion models and the GPS velocity near plate boundaries, provides a convenient measure of the plate-like behavior of convergent plates and strain partitioning between intraplate and interplate deformation.

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Keywords
Tectonophysics, Continental contractional orogenic belts, Tectonophysics, Plate motions--present and recent
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Geophysical Research Letters
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