Slip reversals on active normal faults related to the inflation and deflation of magma chambers: Numerical modeling with application to the Yellowstone-Teton region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Hampel, Andrea ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; MINERALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EARTH'S CRUST; MAGMA CHAMBERS; MAGMA TIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISM; NORMAL FAULTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; SLIP BEHAVIOR; SLIP REVERSALS; STRONG COUPLINGS; TECTONIC FAULTS; TECTONIC FORCING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; FAULT SLIP; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; REVERSE FAULT;

NORTH AMERICA; TETON COUNTY [WYOMING]; UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE CALDERA;

EID: 45549100569     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033226     Document Type: Article

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