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Basal Characteristics Of The Main Sticky Spot On The Ice Plain Of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, Tarun Luthra, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, J. Paul Winberry, Richard B. Alley, Nicholas Holschuh
Basal Characteristics Of The Main Sticky Spot On The Ice Plain Of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, Tarun Luthra, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, J. Paul Winberry, Richard B. Alley, Nicholas Holschuh
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Understanding the processes that affect streaming ice flow and the mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets requires sound knowledge of their subglacial environments. Previous studies have shown that an extensive deformable subglacial sediment layer favors fast ice-stream flow. However, areas of high basal drag, termed sticky spots, are of particular interest because they inhibit the fast flow of the overriding ice. The stick-slip behavior of Whillans Ice Stream (WIS) is perhaps the most conspicuous manifestation of a subglacial sticky spot. We present new ice-thickness and seismic-reflection measurements collected over the main sticky spot in the ice plain of WIS, …
Present Day Kinematics Of The Eastern California Shear Zone From A Geodetically Constrained Block Model, S. C. Mcclusky, S. C. Bjornstad, B. H. Hager, R. W. King, B. J. Meade, M. Meghan Miller, F. C. Monastero, B. J. Souter
Present Day Kinematics Of The Eastern California Shear Zone From A Geodetically Constrained Block Model, S. C. Mcclusky, S. C. Bjornstad, B. H. Hager, R. W. King, B. J. Meade, M. Meghan Miller, F. C. Monastero, B. J. Souter
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We use Global Positioning System (GPS) data from 1993–2000 to determine horizontal velocities of 65 stations in eastern California and western Nevada between 35° and 37° N. We relate the geodetic velocities to fault slip rates using a block model that enforces path integral constraints over geologic and geodetic time scales and that includes the effects of elastic strain accumulation on faults locked to a depth of 15 km. The velocity of the Sierra Nevada block with respect to Nevada is 11.1±0.3 mm/yr, with slip partitioned across the Death Valley, (2.8±0.5 mm/yr), Panamint Valley (2.5±0.8 mm/yr), and Airport Lake/Owens Valley …
Refined Kinematics Of The Eastern California Shear Zone From Gps Observations, 1993-1998, M. Meghan Miller, Timothy H. Dixon, Roy K. Dokka
Refined Kinematics Of The Eastern California Shear Zone From Gps Observations, 1993-1998, M. Meghan Miller, Timothy H. Dixon, Roy K. Dokka
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Global Positioning System (GPS) results from networks spanning the Eastern California shear zone and adjacent Sierra Nevada block, occupied annually between 1993 and 1998, constrain plate margin kinematics. We use an elastic block model to relate GPS station velocities to long‐term fault slip rate estimates. The model accounts for elastic strain accumulation on the San Andreas fault, as well as faults of the Eastern California shear zone. South of the Garlock fault, 14 mm/yr of dextral shear is distributed across the Eastern California shear zone. Some of this slip penetrates eastward into the Basin and Range, and a collective budget …