Particle size distributions of fault rocks and fault transpression: Are they related?

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-66

  Billi, Andrea ^a   Storti, Fabrizio ^a   Salvini, Francesco ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATACLASITE; FAULTING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS CHANGE; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); TRANSPRESSION;

ITALY;

EID: 0037329506     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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