Can lateral viscosity contrasts explain asymmetric interseismic deformation around strike-slip faults?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 490-503

  Vaghri, Ali ^a   Hearn, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ASYMMETRIC MODELS; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION RATES; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLATE THICKNESS; ROCK TYPES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; SURFACE VELOCITY; THICK PLATE; THIN PLATE; VARIABLE-THICKNESS PLATES; VISCOSITY CONTRAST;

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTICITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VELOCITY;

DEFORMATION;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84859113920     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100347     Document Type: Article

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