On the nucleation of creep and the interaction between creep and seismic slip on rate- and state-dependent faults

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Ziv, Alon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CREEP; NUCLEATION; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

AFTERSHOCKS; SEISMIC FAULT;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AFTERSHOCK; CREEP; FAULT SLIP; FRACTURE; NUCLEATION; SLIP RATE; STRESS CHANGE;

EID: 34948819714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030337     Document Type: Article

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