intracrustal

English

Etymology

From intra- +‎ crustal.

Adjective

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 ).