The timescale and mechanisms of fault sealing and water-rock interaction after an earthquake

Geofluids

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-440

  Claesson, Lillemor ^a   Skelton, A ^a   Graham, C ^b   Morth C M ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Fault sealing; Hydrogeochemistry; Iceland; Tj rnes Fracture Zone; Water rock interaction

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; TJORNES FRACTURE ZONE;

EID: 35349005827     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: 14688123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2007.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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