Mechanical relation between crustal rheology, effective fault friction, and strike-slip partitioning among the Xiaojiang fault system, southeastern Tibet

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-375

  He, Jiankun ^a   Lu, Shuangjiang ^a   Wang, Xinguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Effective fault friction; Mechanical modeling; Slip partitioning; Viscous lower crust; Xiaojiang fault system

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; LOWER CRUST; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VISCOSITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 55349133355     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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