RELATIVE MOTIONS IN EUROPE STUDIED WITH A GEODETIC VLBI NETWORK

Since 1988, the European geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (V LBI) community and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, have set up t he observation of a series of geodetic VLBI experiments with the purpo se of studying possible crustal deformations in Western Europe. In thi s work we present the results of the analysis of the complete data set with the software package OCCAM 3.0. These results show the detection of significant motions at the centimetre per year level in the southe rn European stations, close to the boundary between the African and Eu rasian plates. Meanwhile, they show no significant motions at that lev el in central Europe or the Iberian Peninsula. The extraordinary quali ty of the data and the consistency of the analysis have made it possib le to obtain significant geodynamical results in a relatively short ti me-span.