Relation between permeability and effective stress along a plate-boundary fault, Barbados accretionary complex

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-310

  Fisher, Andrew T ^a   Zwart, Gretchen ^a   Shipley, T ^b   Ogawa, Y ^b   Ashi, J ^b   Blum, P ^b   Bruckmann W ^b   Filice, F ^b   Goldberg, D ^b   Henry, P ^b   Housen, B ^b   Jurado, M J ^b   Kastner, M ^b   Labaume, P ^b   Laier, T ^b   Leitch, E ^b   Maltman, A ^b   Meyer, A ^b   Moore, J C ^b   Moore, G ^b   Peacock, S ^b   Rabaute, A ^b   Steiger, T ^b   Tobin, H ^b   Underwood, M ^b   Xu, Y ^b   Yin, H ^b   Zheng, Y ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DETACHMENT FAULT; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAULT INTERACTIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONS; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS;

FAULTING;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FAULT; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PERMEABILITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; DEFORMATION;

BARBADOS; ATLANTIC; BARBADOS ACCRETIONARY PRISM;

EID: 0029729621     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0307:RBPAES>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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