Fluidization and melting of fault gouge during seismic slip: Identification in the Nojima fault zone and implications for focal earthquake mechanisms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Otsuki, Kenshiro ^a   Monzawa, Nobuaki ^a   Nagase, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault gouge; Fluidization; Frictional melting; Pseudotachylyte; Slip instability; Viscosity of melt

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FLUIDIZATION; FOCAL MECHANISM; MELTING; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SEISMICITY;

AWAJI ISLAND; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0042812323     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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