Slow slip and frictional transition at low temperature at the Hikurangi subduction zone

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 316-320

  McCaffrey, Robert ^a   Wallace, Laura M ^a   Beavan, John ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

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EID: 54849417919     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo178     Document Type: Article

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