Extreme dynamic weakening of faults during dehydration by coseismic shear heating

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Hirose, Takehiro ^a   Bystricky, Misha ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT ZONE; FRICTION COEFFICIENT; SEISMOGENIC FAULT;

TECTONICS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548590638     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030049     Document Type: Article

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