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GPS and seismological constraints on active tectonics and arc-continent collision in Papua New Guinea: Implications for mechanics of microplate rotations

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Wallace, Laura
Stevens, Colleen
Silver, Eli
McCaffrey, Rob
Loratung, Wesley
Hasiata, Suvenia
Stanaway, Richard
Curley, Robert
Rosa, Robert
Taugaloidi, Jones

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American Geophysical Union

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The island of New Guinea is located within the deforming zone between the Pacific and Australian plates that converge obliquely at ∼110 mm/yr. New Guinea has been fragmented into a complex array of microplates, some of which rotate rapidly about nearby

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Journal of Geophysical Research

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