Formation and evolution of a population of strike-slip faults in a multiscale cellular automaton model

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 723-744

  Narteau, Clément ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Fault slip; Faulting; Rock fracture; Seismo tectonics

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; STRAIN RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 33846683610     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03213.x     Document Type: Article

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