Seismicity and the Geopotential Stress Field of the Continental Lithosphere

Authors

Randell Stephenson
University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, Scotland
Christian Schiffer
Uppsala University, 75237, Uppsala, Sweden
Soren Bom Nielsen
Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark

Synopsis

A range of stress sources contribute to the stress state of the lithosphere (e.g. Ranalli, 1995): slab pull, shear resistance at subduction zones and strike slip faults, convection drag at the base of the lithosphere, stresses transferred to the interior of plates from plate boundary processes, horizontal gradients of pressure variations at the base of the lithosphere (“dynamic topography”) and horizontal gradients of lithospheric potential energy.

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Published
April 12, 2020