A dislocation model of seismic wave attenuation and micro-creep in the earth: Harold Jeffreys and the rheology of the solid earth

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 153, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 239-256

  Karato, Shun Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bordoni peak; Dislocations; Geometrical kinks; Maxwell time; Peierls stress; Seismic wave attenuation; Transient creep

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DISLOCATION; MINERALOGY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVE; SOLID EARTH; WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 0032421799     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050195     Document Type: Article

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