Prolonged post-seismic deformation of the 1960 great Chile earthquake and implications for mantle rheology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 7-1-7-4

  Khazaradze, G ^a   Wang, K ^b,c   Klotz, J ^a   Hu, Y ^c   He, J ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS RELAXATION; VISCOSITY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; MANTLE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY;

CHILE;

EID: 0037113705     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl015986     Document Type: Article

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