Elevated stresses and creep rates beneath the brittle-ductile transition caused by seismic faulting in the upper crust

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Ellis, Susan ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creep; Crust; Earthquakes; Faulting; Seismic; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS CHANGE; UPPER CRUST;

EID: 4644258560     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002744     Document Type: Article

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