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Science 23 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5474, pp. 2139 - 2141
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5474.2139
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Perspectives

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GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: A Strained Earth, Past and Present

John G. Ramsay

Plate tectonics leads to deformation within converging or transforming plates, but the rates at which this happens are difficult to evaluate. In this Perspective, Ramsay highlights a new technique reported by Müller et al. for overcoming this problem in past and present mountain-building regions, which have particularly complex deformation patterns.

The author is in Cratoule, Issirac, St. Julien de Payrolas, F30760 France.

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Determination of Strain-Rates in Metamorphic Rocks
John L. Rosenfeld
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