Nearly frictionless faulting by unclamping in long-term interaction models

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1063-1066

  Parsons, Tom ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Faulting; Friction; San Andreas; Transforms

Indexed keywords

FRICTIONLESS FAULTING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; SLIP FORMING; STRESSES;

ROCKS;

FAULTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRAIN; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EID: 0036972214     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<1063:NFFBUI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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