Steady-state laboratory flow laws alone fail to explain postseismic observations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Freed, Andrew M ^a   Herring, Thomas ^b   Bürgmann, Roland ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dislocation creep; Finite element modeling; Geodesy; Hector Mine; Postseismic relaxation; Rheology

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATION CREEP; DISPLACEMENT RATE; FAR-FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FLOW LAW; GRAIN SIZE; HECTOR MINE; MANTLE ROCKS; MOJAVE DESERT; POSTSEISMIC RELAXATION; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; STRESS CONDITION; STRESS-DEPENDENT; UPPER MANTLE;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; GEODESY; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRAIN RATE; SURVEYING; VISCOSITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODESY; GPS; HECTOR MINE EARTHQUAKE 1999; NUMERICAL MODEL; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; RHEOLOGY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRAIN RATE; UPPER MANTLE;

CALIFORNIA; HECTOR MINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149498412     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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