Growth of plastic shear zone and its duration inferred from theoretical consideration and observation of an ancient shear zone in the granitic crust

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1207-1210

  Tanaka, Hidemi ^a   Shibazaki, Bunichiro ^b   Shigematsu, Norio ^c   Fujimoto, Koichiro ^c   Ohtani, Tomoyuki ^c   Miyashita, Yukari ^c   Tomita, Tomoaki ^d   Omura, Kentaro ^e   Kobayashi, Yoji ^d   Kameda, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR ZONE;

EID: 20544474163     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03353321     Document Type: Article

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