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intracrustal en · ADJ

Etymology

From intra- + crustal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) inside 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: