Stability regimes of a dilatant, fluid-infiltrated fault plane in a three-dimensional elastic solid

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Hillers, Gregor ^a,b   Miller, S A ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILATANCY; ELASTICITY; FAULT PLANE; FRICTION; POROSITY; SLIP; STICK-SLIP; STIFFNESS; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 33846031740     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003872     Document Type: Article

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