Viscous roots of active seismogenic faults revealed by geologic slip rate variations

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1036-1040

  Cowie, P A ^a   Scholz, C H ^b   Roberts, G P ^c   Faure Walker, J P ^d   Steer, P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FAULT ZONE; POWER LAW; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; STRAIN; STRAIN RATE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VISCOUS FLOW;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84889019407     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1991     Document Type: Article

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