Fusion by earthquake fault friction: Stick or slip

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Fialko, Yuri ^a   Khazan, Yakov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT; FRICTION;

EID: 31544480633     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003869     Document Type: Article

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