Elastic property of damaged zone inferred from in-situ stresses and its role on the shear strength of faults

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1181-1194

  Yamamoto, Kiyohiko ^a   Sato, Namiko ^a   Yabe, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 14244252612     PISSN: 18805981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353319     Document Type: Article

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