Clay-clast aggregates: A new textural evidence for seismic fault sliding?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Boutareaud, Sébastien ^a,b   Calugaru, Dan Gabriel ^a   Han, Raehee ^c   Fabbri, Olivier ^a   Mizoguchi, Kazuo ^d   Tsutsumi, Akito ^e   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; FRICTION; SOIL MOISTURE; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

CLAYEY GOUGE ZONES; SEISMIC FAULT SLIDING; SEISMIC SLIP RATES; STRAIN LOCALIZATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CLAST; CLAY; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SLIP; FOLIATION; FRICTION; MICROAGGREGATE; MICROSTRUCTURE; RESIDUAL STRESS; SATURATED MEDIUM; SLIDING; SLIP RATE; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 43849098389     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032554     Document Type: Article

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