The effect of fault slip on permeability and permeability anisotropy in quartz gouge

Tectonophysics

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 41-52

  Zhang, Shuqing ^a,b   Tullis, Terry E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fault slip; Permeability; Permeability anisotropy

Indexed keywords

FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SLIP; FLUID FLOW; PERMEABILITY; QUARTZ;

EID: 0032582321     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00114-0     Document Type: Article

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