The weakness of earthquake faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-126

  Mora, Peter ^a   Place, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; HEAT FLOW; STRENGTH;

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; FAULT FRICTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATTICE SOLID MODEL; MACROSCOPIC DOMAINS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

FAULTING;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0032904987     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900231     Document Type: Article

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