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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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Autores principales: Prieto, Germán A., Froment, Bérénice, Yu, Chunquan, Poli, Piero, Abercrombie, Rachel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28345055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602642