Response of faults to climate-driven changes in ice and water volumes on earth's surface

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1919, 2010, Pages 2501-2517

  Hampel, Andrea ^a   Hetzel, Ralf ^b   Maniatis, Georgios ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Fault; Rebound; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; SNOW; UNLOADING;

ANTARCTICA; DEGLACIATIONS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE FREQUENCY; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; ICE-CAPS; NORMAL FAULTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SLIP RATES; WATER VOLUMES;

ICE;

EID: 77953010794     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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