Quasi-adiabatic shear zones in the lithosphere: Numerical and experimental approaches

Electronic Geosciences

Volumn 4, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-14

  Regenauer Lieb, K ^a   Petit, J P ^b   Yuen, D ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental and numerical modeling; Fault nucleation; Plasticity theory; Thermal coupling; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542739413     PISSN: 14362511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10069-999-0002-x     Document Type: Article

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