Robert W. King
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
104 Papers
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Robert W. King is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global Positioning System & Subduction. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 102 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert W. King include Bell Labs & Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Papers
Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus
Simon McClusky,S. Balassanian,Aykut Barka,Coskun Demir,Semih Ergintav,Ivan Georgiev,O. Gurkan,Michael W. Hamburger,K. Hurst,Hans-Gert Kahle,Kim A. Kastens,G. Kekelidze,Robert W. King,V. Kotzev,Onur Lenk,Salah Mahmoud,A. Mishin,M. Nadariya,A. Ouzounis,Demitris Paradissis,Yannick Peter,M. Prilepin,Robert Reilinger,I. Sanli,H. Seeger,A. Tealeb,M. N. Toksoz,G. Veis +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and interpret GPS measurements of crustal motions for the period 1988-1997 at 189 sites extending east-west from the Caucasus mountains to the Adriatic Sea and north-south from the southern edge of the Eurasian plate to the northern edge of Africa.
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Surface Deformation and Lower Crustal Flow in Eastern Tibet
Leigh H. Royden,B. Clark Burchfiel,Robert W. King,Erchie Wang,Zhiliang Chen,Feng Shen,Y. Liu +6 more
TL;DR: This model predicts east-west extension on the high plateau without convective removal of Tibetan lithosphere and without eastward movement of the crust east of the plateau.
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Global Positioning System measurements of present-day crustal movements in the Arabia-Africa-Eurasia plate collision zone
Robert Reilinger,Simon McClusky,M. B. Oral,Robert W. King,M. N. Toksoz,Aykut Barka,I. Kinik,Onur Lenk,I. Sanli +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and interpret GPS measurements of crustal motions for the period 1988-1994 at 54 sites extending east-west from the Caucasus mountains of southern Russia, Georgia, and Armenia to the Aegean coast of Turkey and north-south from the southern edge of the Eurasian plate (Pontus block) to the northern edge of a platform.
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A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
B. C. Burchfiel,Leigh H. Royden,R. D. van der Hilst,Bradford H. Hager,Z. Chen,Robert W. King,Chang Li,J Lu,Huajian Yao,Eric Kirby +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured the Longmen Shan margin of the eastern Tibetan plateau and caused ductile thickening of the deep crust in a weak (lowviscosity) layer.
Global Positioning System measurements from eastern Tibet and their implications for India/Eurasia intercontinental deformation
Zhiliang Chen,B. C. Burchfiel,Y. Liu,Robert W. King,Leigh H. Royden,W. Tang,E. Wang,J. Zhao,X. Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and interpret Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of crustal motions for the period 1991-1998 for a network encompassing the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau and its foreland.
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