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The motion of crustal blocks driven by flow of the lower lithosphere and implications for slip rates of continental strike-slip faults
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The slip rates between blocks estimated in this way from recent geodetic measurements across fault zones in the South Island of New Zealand and Southern California are in good agreement with slip rates estimated geologically as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Geodetic measurements in actively deforming areas of the continents reveal the pattern of deformation in the lithosphere. If the dominant forces acting on crustal blocks are tractions at their bases, then the long-term motion of each block will be given by the average velocity of the underlying lithosphere. Slip rates between blocks estimated in this way from recent geodetic measurements across fault zones in the South Island of New Zealand and Southern California are in good agreement with slip rates estimated geologically.read more
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Multi-interferogram method for measuring interseismic deformation: Denali Fault, Alaska
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A healing–reloading feedback control on the growth rate of seismogenic faults
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Crustal structure across the San Andreas Fault, southern California from teleseismic converted waves
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Block kinematics of the Pacific-North America plate boundary in the southwestern United States from inversion of GPS, seismological, and geologic data
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