Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6824, 2001, Pages 74-77

  Abercrombie, R E ^a   Ekstrom G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FAILURE; EARTHQUAKE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035282575     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35065064     Document Type: Article

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