Tremor during ice-stream stick slip

During the 200 km-scale stick slip of the Whillans Ice Plain (WIP), West Antarctica, seismic tremor episodes occur at the ice–bed interface. We interpret these tremor episodes as swarms of small repeating earthquakes. The earthquakes are evenly spaced in time, and this even spacing gives r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: B. P. Lipovsky, E. M. Dunham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-02-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/385/2016/tc-10-385-2016.pdf