A tale of two kinds of normal fault: The importance of strain weakening in fault development

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 187, Issue , 2001, Pages 289-303

  Buck, W Roger ^a   Lavier, Luc L ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; MOHR THEORY; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRAIN ANALYSIS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0035720914     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.187.01.14     Document Type: Article

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