intracrustal

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adjective

inside or within crusts

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Meanings

adjectiveintracrustal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableinside or within crusts

    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 ).

    1998 November 6, J. C. Savage et al., “Detecting Strain in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada”, in Science, volume 282, number 5391, →DOI

Origin

From intra- + crustal.

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