Slip localization and fault weakening as a consequence of fault gouge strengthening - Insights from laboratory experiments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 73-84

  Giger, Silvio B ^a   Cox, Stephen F ^a   Tenthorey, Eric ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fault gouge; hydrothermal conditions; microstructures; slip localization; slow earthquakes; solution transfer processes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTS; CATACLASTIC FLOWS; COARSE GRAIN SIZES; COEFFICIENT OF FRICTIONS; COHESIVE BONDS; CONFINING PRESSURES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DEFORMATION MODES; DEFORMATION RATES; DRY CONDITIONS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT GOUGES; GRAIN CONTACTS; GRANULAR FLOWS; HIGH TEMPERATURES; HYDROTHERMAL CONDITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSES; PORE FLUIDS; POROSITY REDUCTIONS; PRECIPITATION PROCESSES; SHEAR RESISTANCES; SLIP LOCALIZATION; SLOW EARTHQUAKES; SMALL GRAINS; STRESS DROPS; TIME SCALES; TRANSFER PROCESSES;

COMPACTION; CURING; DEFORMATION; DISSOLUTION; DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LABORATORIES; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHATRONICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

STRESSES;

CONFINING PRESSURE; CREEP; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SLIP RATE;

EID: 55549111562     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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