Thermal properties across the Chelungpu fault zone and evaluations of positive thermal anomaly on the slip zones: Are these residuals of heat from faulting?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tanaka, H ^a   Chen, W M ^b   Kawabata, K ^a   Urata, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HEAT GENERATION; TECTONICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

SLIP ZONES; THERMAL ANOMALIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE ZONE; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; SLIP; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548042770     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028153     Document Type: Article

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