Frictional heating on faults: stable sliding versus stick-slip

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue B4, 1998, Pages 7413-7420

  Brown, Stephen R ^a  

^a New England Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; HEAT GENERATION; SLIDING; STICK-SLIP;

EID: 0032502529     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00200     Document Type: Article

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