Energy partitioning during seismic slip in pseudotachylyte-bearing faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Adamello, Italy)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Pittarello, Lidia ^a   Di Toro, Giulio ^a,b   Bizzarri, Andrea ^c   Pennacchioni, Giorgio ^a,c   Hadizadeh, Jafar ^d   Cocco, Massimo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

earthquakes; energy partitioning; frictional heat; particle size distribution; pseudotachylyte; surface energy

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MECHANICAL WORK DENSITY; PSEUDOTACHYLYTE; SEISMIC SLIP;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FAULT PLANE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLIP; SURFACE ENERGY;

EID: 42649126344     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.052     Document Type: Article

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