Evidence of power-law flow in the Mojave desert mantle

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6999, 2004, Pages 548-551

  Freed, Andrew M ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ROCKS; STRAIN; VISCOSITY;

MOJAVE DESERT; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

FLUID FLOW; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE PROCESS; POWER LAW; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; DESERT; EARTHQUAKE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242885514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02784     Document Type: Article

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