Electric potential changes prior to shear fracture in dry and saturated rocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1577-1580

  Yoshida, Shingo ^a,b   Clint, Oswald C ^a   Sammonds, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FLOW OF WATER; PIEZOELECTRICITY; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FRACTURE;

CO-SEISMIC SIGNALS; DYNAMIC RUPTURES; ELECTROKINETIC EFFECT; PRECURSORY SIGNALS; SATURATED ROCK; SATURATED SANDSTONES; SHEAR FRACTURE; SHEAR RUPTURES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LITHOLOGY;

BASALT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SANDSTONE; SHEAR FRACTURE;

EID: 0032523620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01222     Document Type: Article

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