| Автор | Lowry, Anthony R. |
| Автор | Smith, Robert B. |
| Дата выпуска | 1995 |
| dc.description | Effective elastic thickness T<sub>e</sub> depends primarily on temperature, composition, and state of stress of the lithosphere. In this paper, we examine high‐resolution spectral estimates of Te and their relationships to regional heat flow, age of the lithosphere, seismic properties, stress orientations, and earthquake focal depths of the western U.S. Cordillera. The relationship of T<sub>e</sub> to heat flow indicates that ductile flow accommodates long‐term (∼10<sup>6</sup> to 10<sup>8</sup> years) isostatic response at different levels of the crust and upper mantle, depending principally on age (and, by implication, bulk composition) of the lithosphere. Isostatic response is primarily controlled by the upper mantle in Archean lithosphere of the middle Rocky Mountains, whereas T<sub>e</sub> depends on lower crustal flow in Early Proterozoic lithosphere of the Colorado Plateau. The Yellowstone‐Snake River Plain volcanic field and significantly extended regions in the Basin‐Range and northern Rocky Mountains are associated with latest Proterozoic aged lithosphere and indicate middle to upper crustal control of long‐term T<sub>e</sub>. We also show that azimuthal variations of T<sub>e</sub> reflect deviatoric stress in the lithosphere. T<sub>e</sub> is found empirically to approximate the 95th percentile focal depth of background seismicity. The latter relationship is inconsistent with brittle‐ductile control of focal depth, indicating that another rheological transition (e.g., from stick‐slip to stable sliding frictional behavior) is responsible. Tectonic and structural relationships expand upon the hypothesis that the geographic distribution of tectonic features depends fundamentally on spatial variations in strength of the lithosphere. Moreover, we find a spatial correlation of the Intermountain Seismic Belt to a marked transition in T<sub>e</sub>, implying that forces responsible for this active seismic zone are derived from local buoyancy anomalies rather than from current‐day plate boundary interactions. |
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| Копирайт | Copyright 1995 by the American Geophysical Union. |
| Тема | GEODESY AND GRAVITY |
| Тема | Transient deformation |
| Тема | Time variable gravity |
| Тема | Satellite geodesy: results |
| Тема | Seismic cycle related deformations |
| Тема | SEISMOLOGY |
| Тема | Seismicity and tectonics |
| Тема | STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY |
| Тема | Rheology: crust and lithosphere |
| Тема | TECTONOPHYSICS |
| Тема | Rheology: crust and lithosphere |
| Тема | Tectonophysics: Continental tectonics—extensional |
| Тема | Stresses: crust and lithosphere |
| Название | Strength and rheology of the western U.S. Cordillera |
| Тип | article |
| DOI | 10.1029/95JB00747 |
| Electronic ISSN | 2156-2202 |
| Print ISSN | 0148-0227 |
| Журнал | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth |
| Том | 100 |
| Первая страница | 17947 |
| Последняя страница | 17963 |
| Выпуск | B9 |
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