Episodic propagation of a rift on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica

[1] We investigate ice shelf rift propagation using a combination of GPS and seismic measurements near the tip of an active rift in the Amery Ice Shelf. These measurements reveal that propagation occurs in episodic bursts, which were identified based on swarms of seismicity accompanied by rapid rift...

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Main Authors: J. N. Bassis, R. Coleman, H. A. Fricker, J. B. Minster
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.468.1381
http://aosshost.engin.umich.edu/faculty/bassis/content/papers/Bassis_GRL_2004.pdf