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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
卷 121, 期 12, 页码 8888-8916出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013382
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- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/A/S/2001/01607]
- National Centre for Earth Observation (COMET+)
- National Environmental Research Council
- Economic and Social Research Council [NE/J02001X/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J02001X/1, NE/I028017/1, NER/A/S/2001/01067, NE/J016322/1, come30001, NE/J019895/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/I028017/1, NE/J02001X/1, come30001, NE/J019895/1, NE/J016322/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We estimate the strength of the lithosphere in Anatolia and the Aegean, and the boundary forces acting upon it, using a dynamical model that treats the lithosphere as a thin fluid sheet deforming in response to variations in gravitational potential energy. This model has one free material parameter, the power law exponent, n, of the vertically averaged rheology of the lithosphere, and two parameters that specify the forces per unit length applied to its edges. Solutions to this model that best fit the velocities of 346 reliable GPS sites require an effective viscosity of the lithosphere of 10(22) to 10(21) Pa s at strain rates of 10 to 100 nanostrain per year. The best-fitting force at the Arabia-Anatolia boundary is consistent with the lithostatic pressure due to the high topography there, and the force at the Nubia-Aegean boundary is consistent with the contrast in lithostatic pressure across that boundary. No additional force, from slab rollback or basal tractions due to convection in the mantle, is required to explain the observations. These results are supported by scaling relations derived from approximate analytical solutions. The inverse relationship between the viscosity of the lithosphere and deviatoric stress produces strong slowly deforming regions in the Southern Aegean and Central Anatolia whose motions resemble those of microplates. The distribution of geodetic strain rates within the region, and the partitioning between normal and strike-slip faulting, are explained by the interplay between boundary conditions, internal variations in gravitational potential energy, and the power law rheology of the lithosphere.
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