Modeling slips and nucleation processes at the deeper part of the seismogenic zone

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1087-1093

  Shibazaki, Bunichiro ^a   Shigematsu, Norio ^b   Tanaka, Hidemi ^c  

^a BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

A constitutive law combining friction and flow; Frictional viscous transition; Low viscosity region; Nucleation process

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM;

EID: 20544455218     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353327     Document Type: Article

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