Faults (shear zones) in the Earth's mantle

A Vauchez, A Tommasi, D Mainprice - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Geodetic data support a short-term continental deformation localized in faults bounding
lithospheric blocks. Whether major “faults” observed at the surface affect the lithospheric …

Earthquake cycle deformation and the Moho: Implications for the rheology of continental lithosphere

TJ Wright, JR Elliott, H Wang, I Ryder - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The last 20 years has seen a dramatic improvement in the quantity and quality of geodetic
measurements of the earthquake loading cycle. In this paper we compile and review these …

The thermal structure of subduction zone back arcs

CA Currie, RD Hyndman - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
It is well recognized that active arc volcanism at nearly all subduction zones requires
temperatures greater than 1200° C in the subarc mantle, despite the underthrusting cool …

GPS measurements of crustal deformation in the Baikal‐Mongolia area (1994–2002): Implications for current kinematics of Asia

E Calais, M Vergnolle, V San'Kov… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We present new geodetic results of crustal velocities over a large part of northern Asia
based on GPS measurements in the Baikal rift zone and Mongolia spanning the 1994–2002 …

Influence of water fugacity and activation volume on the flow properties of fine‐grained anorthite aggregates

E Rybacki, M Gottschalk, R Wirth… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
To specify quantitatively the effect of pressure and water weakening on the flow strength of
feldspar we performed triaxial creep experiments in a gas deformation apparatus at …

Implications of deformation following the 2002 Denali, Alaska, earthquake for postseismic relaxation processes and lithospheric rheology

AM Freed, R Bürgmann, E Calais… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
During the first 2 years following the 2002 Mw= 7.9 Denali, Alaska, strike‐slip earthquake, a
large array of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers recorded rapid postseismic surface …

The role of crustal strength variations in shaping orogenic plateaus, with application to Tibet

KL Cook, LH Royden - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Tibetan Plateau is the type example of a large orogenic plateau formed as a result of
continent‐continent collision. The morphology of the plateau and its margins suggests that …

The thermal effects of steady-state slab-driven mantle flow above a subducting plate: the Cascadia subduction zone and backarc

CA Currie, K Wang, RD Hyndman, J He - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
At subduction zones, geophysical and geochemical observations indicate that the arc and
backarc regions are hot, in spite of the cooling effects of a subducting plate. At the well …

Magnetotelluric multiscale 3-D inversion reveals crustal and upper mantle structure beneath the Hangai and Gobi-Altai region in Mongolia

JS Käufl, AV Grayver, MJ Comeau… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Central Mongolia is a prominent region of intracontinental surface deformation and
intraplate volcanism. To study these processes, which are poorly understood, we collected …

Channel flow extrusion model to constrain dynamic viscosity and Prandtl number of the Higher Himalayan Shear Zone

S Mukherjee - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Springer
Constraining magnitudes of mechanical and thermo-mechanical parameters of rocks and
shear zones are the important goals in structural geology and tectonics (Talbot in J Struct …