Increase of creep interevent intervals: A conceptual model

Tectonophysics

Volumn 277, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 99-107

  Belardinelli, Maria Elina ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aseismic sliding; Fault rheology; Spring slider

Indexed keywords

ASEISMIC BEHAVIOUR; ASEISMIC SLIDING; CREEP; CREEP BEHAVIOUR; FAULT; FAULT CREEP;

EID: 0031414084     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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