The interaction of viscous heating with grain-size dependent rheology in the formation of localized slip zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2523-2526

  Kameyama, Masanori ^a   Yuen, David A ^b   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GRAIN SIZE DEPENDENT RHEOLOGY; LOCALIZED SLIP ZONES; VISCOUS HEATING;

TECTONICS;

GEODYNAMICS; GRAIN SIZE; MICROSTRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SLIP; THERMOMECHANICS; VISCOUS HEATING;

EID: 0031252184     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02648     Document Type: Article

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