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  • 标题:Basal seismicity of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream
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  • 作者:Ian W. McBrearty ; Lucas K. Zoet ; Sridhar Anandakrishnan
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Glaciology
  • 印刷版ISSN:0022-1430
  • 电子版ISSN:1727-5652
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:66
  • 期号:257
  • 页码:430-446
  • DOI:10.1017/jog.2020.17
  • 出版社:Cambridge University Press
  • 摘要:Abstract Seismic studies of glaciers yield insights into spatio-temporal processes within and beneath glaciers on scales relevant to flow and deformation of the ice. These methods enable direct monitoring of the bed in ways that complement other geophysical techniques, such as geodetic or ground penetrating radar observations. In this work, we report on the analysis of passive seismic data collected from the interior of the North East Greenland Ice Stream, the Greenland ice sheet's largest outlet glacier. We record thousands of basal earthquakes, many of which repeat with nearly identical waveforms. We also record many long-duration glacial tremor episodes that migrate across the seismic network with slow velocities (e.g. ~4–12 m s −1 ). Analysis of the basal earthquakes indicates a transition between times of individual event activity and times of tremor activity. We suggest that both processes are produced by shear slip at localized asperities along the bed. The transition between discrete and quasi-continuous slipping modes may be driven by pore-water pressure transients or heterogeneous strain accumulation in the ice due to strength contrasts of the underlying till.
  • 关键词:Seismology; arctic glaciology; glacier mechanics
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