Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle

Earthquakes deep in the continental lithosphere are rare and hard to interpret in our current understanding of temperature control on brittle failure. The recent lithospheric mantle earthquake with a moment magnitude of 4.8 at a depth of ~75 km in the Wyoming Craton was exceptionally well recorded a...

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Main Authors: Prieto, German A., Froment, Berenice, Abercrombie, Rachel, Yu, Chunquan, Poli, Piero
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110061
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