Lower crustal relaxation beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Qaidam Basin following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 613-630

  Ryder, Isabelle ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b   Pollitz, Fred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental neotectonics; Crustal structure; Radar interferometry; Satellite geodesy; Seismic cycle; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NEOTECTONICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEISMIC CYCLE; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RESIDUAL STRESSES; RHEOLOGY; STRESS RELAXATION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ASYMMETRY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODESY; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; KUNLUN EARTHQUAKE 2001; LOWER CRUST; NEOTECTONICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR ZONE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80054702920     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05179.x     Document Type: Article

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