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 …

Pn Velocities Beneath Continental Collision Zones: the Turkish-Iranian Plateau

TM Hearn, JF Ni - Geophysical Journal International, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Tomographic imaging of the uppermost mantle velocity in the Middle East shows normal Pn
velocities (8.0–8.2 km s− 1) beneath the Black Sea and the southern Caspian Sea. In …

Telluric currents generated by solar flare radiation: physical model and numerical estimations

V Sorokin, A Yaschenko, G Mushkarev, V Novikov - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current studies of solar-terrestrial relations and possible impact of space weather on the
seismic activity are based on statistical analysis without detailed consideration of possible …

Deep long-period earthquakes beneath Washington and Oregon volcanoes

ML Nichols, SD Malone, SC Moran, WA Thelen… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Deep long-period (DLP) earthquakes are an enigmatic type of seismicity occurring near or
beneath volcanoes. They are commonly associated with the presence of magma, and found …

On the geoelectric structure of major strike-slip faults and shear zones

M Unsworth, PA Bedrosian - Earth, planets and space, 2004 - Springer
Magnetotelluric imaging of the San Andreas Fault has shown that seismically-active
segments are characterized by a zone of low resistivity in the upper crust. Similar resistivity …

Electromagnetic images of a volcanic zone

AG Jones, I Dumas - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1993 - Elsevier
Data from 20 magnetotelluric (MT) soundings in the Coast belt of southwestern British
Columbia, Canada, in the vicinity of volcanic Mounts Meager and Cayley (approximately …

Lithospheric geometry of the Wopmay orogen from a Slave craton to Bear Province magnetotelluric transect

JE Spratt, AG Jones, VA Jackson… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional inversions of lithospheric‐probing magnetotelluric (MT) data at a total of
20 sites acquired along an approximately east–west 300‐km‐long profile across the …

Eastern termination of the Altyn Tagh Fault, western China: Constraints from a magnetotelluric survey

Q Xiao, G Shao, J Liu‐Zeng, ME Oskin… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The left‐lateral Altyn Tagh Fault forms the northern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau.
The strike‐slip rate of the active Altyn Tagh Fault decreases northeastward and reduces …

Tectonic interpretation of regional conductivity anomalies

C Brown - Surveys in geophysics, 1994 - Springer
This review paper selects key results from electromagnetic induction studies of a variety of
distinctive tectonic phenomena in the top 200 km of the Earth. Its main theme is that …

Source history of the 1905 great Mongolian earthquakes (Tsetserleg, Bolnay)

A Schlupp, A Cisternas - Geophysical Journal International, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary Two great Mongolian earthquakes, Tsetserleg and Bolnay, occurred on 1905 July
9 and 23. We determined the source history of these events using body waveform inversion …