Critical displacement for normal fault nucleation from en-échelon vein arrays in limestones: A case study from the southern Apennines (Italy)

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1011-1020

  Mazzoli, Stefano ^a   Di Bucci, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b National Seismic Survey   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brittle ductile shear zones; Fault initiation; Scaling properties; Shear strain; Very low grade rocks

Indexed keywords

FAULT NUCLEATION;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COALESCENCE; CRACKS; FRICTION; NUCLEATION; STRAIN;

LIMESTONE;

DISPLACEMENT; FAULT PROPAGATION; LIMESTONE; NORMAL FAULT; NUCLEATION; SHEAR ZONE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

ITALY;

EID: 0037411426     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00156-6     Document Type: Article

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