Progressive fault triggering and fluid flow in aftershock domains: Examples from mineralized Archaean fault systems

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 318-330

  Micklethwaite, Steven ^a   Cox, Stephen F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Coulomb failure stress change; Faults and fluids; Mineralization; Triggering

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK DOMAINS; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS CHANGE; FAULT TRIGGERING; HIGH-PRESSURE FLUIDS; MAPPED FAULT GEOMETRIES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMETRY; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; ARCHEAN; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULTING; FLUID FLOW; MINERALIZATION; STATIC RESPONSE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33748891251     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.050     Document Type: Article

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