Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle
Earthquakes deep in the continental lithosphere are rare and hard to interpret in our current understanding of temperature control on brittle failure. The recent lithospheric mantle earthquake with a moment magnitude of 4.8 at a depth of ~75 km in the Wyoming Craton was exceptionally well recorded a...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
2017-06-20T15:49:09Z.
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