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 rise to spe...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Lipovsky, B. P., Dunham, E. M.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-385-2016
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/10/385/2016/