Fluid trapping at the brittle-ductile transition re-examined

Geofluids

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-136

  Simpson, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brittle ductile transition; Fluids; Magnetotellurics; Rheology; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011071252     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-8123.2001.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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