Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5622, 2003, Pages 1121-1123

  Bowman, David ^a,b   King, Geoffrey ^b   Tapponnier, Paul ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTOPLASTICITY; STRAIN;

SLIP PARTITIONING;

TECTONICS;

PLASTIC;

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAULT PROPAGATION; PARTITIONING; PLATE MOTION; STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038363469     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082180     Document Type: Article

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31. The authors gratefully acknowledge discussions with numerous colleagues and helpful comments by two anonymous reviewers. Supported by NSF (grant EAR-0107129), the European Community Environment Program (PRESAP), the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU contribution 339), and Cooperative Agreements EAR-0106924 and USGS-02HQAG0008 to the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). This is SCEC contribution 718 and IPGP contribution 1904.