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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-02-01
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Series: | The Cryosphere |
Online Access: | http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/385/2016/tc-10-385-2016.pdf |