CRUSTAL THICKNESS VARIATIONS AND SEISMICITY OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA

Any uncompensated mass of the northern Andes Mountains is presumably under pressure to adjust within the Earth to its ideal state of isostatic equilibrium. Isostasy is the ideal state that any<br />uncompensated mass seeks to achieve in time. These pressures interact with the relative...

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Main Authors: Woo Kim Jeong, Hernandez-Pardo Orlando, B. von Frese Ralph R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2007-06-01
Series:Earth Sciences Research Journal
Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/esrj/article/view/21211