intracrustal

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English

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Etymology

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From intra- +‎ crustal.

Adjective

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intracrustal (not comparable)

  1. inside or within crusts
    • 1998 November 6, J. C. Savage et al., “Detecting Strain in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada”, in Science[1], volume 282, number 5391, →DOI:
      There are two main mechanisms that govern postseismic deformation: (i) viscoelastic relaxation in an intracrustal asthenospheric layer (4 ) and (ii) afterslip in a velocity-strengthening region above the coseismic rupture zone (5 ).