Probing the rheology of continental crust in the new era of big data geodesy

Tim J Wright

Presentation information

[EE] Oral

S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-CG Complex & General

[S-CG62] [EE] Dynamics in mobile belts

Wed. May 24, 2017 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Convention Hall B (International Conference Hall 2F)

convener:Yukitoshi Fukahata(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Robert Holdsworth(Durham University), Jeanne Hardebeck(USGS), Hikaru Iwamori(Geochemical Evolution Research Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chairperson:Jeanne Hardebeck(USGS), Chairperson:Akemi Noda(National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience)

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

[SCG62-15] Probing the rheology of continental crust in the new era of big data geodesy

★Invited papers

*Tim J Wright¹ (1.COMET, University of Leeds)

Keywords:Earth, Rheology, Geodesy, Continental Tectonics, Earthquake cycle, Deformation

The dramatic increase in the availability of continuous GNSS stations and the launch of new radar satellite constellations like Sentinel-1 mean that we are entering a new "big data" era, where we will have long, accurate time series of surface motions for the entire planet. In this presentation, I will review what these new data are already telling us about the rheology of continental crust, and what we might learn in the future. I will use examples from the Alpine-Himalayan belt, focusing on observations and models of strain accumulation along the North Anatolian Fault, observations of postseismic deformation from continental earthquakes, and on data from the India-Asia collision zone.