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Elósegui et al. 2003
Elósegui, P., Davis, J.L., Mitrovica, J.X., Bennett, R.A. and Wernicke, B.P. (2003). Crustal loading near Great Salt Lake, Utah. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016579. issn: 0094-8276.

Two sites of the BARGEN GPS network are located ~30 km south of Great Salt Lake (GSL). Lake-level records since mid-1996 indicate seasonal water elevation variations of ~0.3 m amplitude superimposed on a roughly decadal feature of amplitude ~0.6 m. Using an elastic Green's function and a simplified load geometry for GSL, we calculate that these variations translate into radial crustal loading signals of ¿0.5 mm (seasonal) and ¿1 mm (decadal). The horizontal loading signals are a factor of ~2 smaller. Despite the small size of the expected loading signals, we conclude that we can observe them using GPS time series for the coordinates of these two sites. The observed amplitudes of the variations agree with the predicted decadal variations to <0.5 mm. The observed annual variations, however, disagree; this difference may be caused by some combination of local precipitation-induced site motion, unmodeled loading from other nearby sources, errors in the GSL model, and atmospheric errors.

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Geodesy and Gravity, Crustal movements--intraplate, Geodesy and Gravity, Space geodetic surveys, Geodesy and Gravity, General or miscellaneous, Tectonophysics, Stresses--crust and lithosphere
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Geophysical Research Letters
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