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Kluwer
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In: Earthquakes at North-Atlantic Passive Margins: Neotectonics and Postglacial Rebound. , ed. by Gregersen, S. and Basham, P. W. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 581-599.
Publication Date:
2016-11-17
Description:
Two continent-scale ice sheets-Antarctica and Greenland currently
exist on earth. The interiors of both continents are virtually aseismic.
Is this coincidental or does a causal connection exist between the two observations?
An examination of this question is the subject of this paper. It is
concluded that with a few reasonable assumptions, ice sheets will indeed inhibit
earthquakes by stabilizing potentially seismogenic faults in the underlying brittle
crust. This same mechanism may also provide an explanation for the intense
late-glacial faulting in Fennoscandia reported elsewhere in this volume.
Type:
Book chapter
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NonPeerReviewed
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text
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