Quartz rheology and short-time-scale crustal instabilities

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1915-1932

  Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a,b,c   Yuen, David A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability; Quartz; Rheology; Slow earthquake; Thermal mechanical mode

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; OLIVINE; QUARTZ; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33750327165     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0104-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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