Localized slip and distributed deformation in oblique settings: The example of the Denali fault system, Alaska

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1284-1298

  Vallage, Amaury ^a   Devès, Maud H ^a   Klinger, Yann ^a   King, Geoffrey C P ^a   Ruppert, Natalia A ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

And modelling; Compressional; Continental tectonics; Dynamics; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Mechanics; Seismic cycle; Seismotectonics; Strike slip and transform; Theory

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; MECHANICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; DYNAMICS AND MECHANICS OF FAULTING; SEISMIC CYCLE; SEISMOTECTONICS; THEORY;

FAULT SLIPS;

AFTERSHOCK; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL ARC; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODYNAMICS; MECHANICS; OBLIQUE FAULT; PLATE MOTION; RUPTURE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; DENALI FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901405407     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu100     Document Type: Article

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