Effect of 3-D viscoelastic structure on post-seismic relaxation from the 2004 M = 9.2 Sumatra earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-204

  Pollitz, Fred ^a   Banerjee, Paramesh ^b   Grijalva, Kelly ^c   Nagarajan, B ^d   Burgmann R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Survey of India   (India)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Numerical solutions; Rheology: mantle

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FLOW FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 41249095978     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03666.x     Document Type: Article

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