Mechanical origin of power law scaling in fault zone rock

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Sammis, Charles G ^a   King, Geoffrey C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; ROCKS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN;

BRECCIA; FAULT ZONE; GOUGE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR MODEL; POWER LAW;

TECTONICS;

BRECCIA; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; POWER LAW; SHEAR STRAIN;

EID: 34547979689     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028548     Document Type: Article

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