Laboratory-derived friction laws and their application to seismic faulting

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 643-696

  Marone, Chris ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FRICTION;

EID: 0031696381     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.643     Document Type: Article

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