Clay mineral reactions caused by frictional heating during an earthquake: An example from the Taiwan Chelungpu fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Hirono, Tetsuro ^a   Fujimoto, Koichiro ^b   Yokoyama, Tadashi ^a   Hamada, Yohei ^a   Tanikawa, Wataru ^c   Tadai, Osamu ^d   Mishima, Toshiaki ^e   Tanimizu, Masaharu ^c   Lin, Weiren ^c   Soh, Wonn ^c   Song, Sheng Rong ^f  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d MARINE WORKS JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HEATING; KAOLINITE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHEMICAL KINETICS; DAMAGED ZONES; DEHYDROXYLATION; FAULT ZONES; FRICTIONAL HEATING; FRICTIONAL MECHANISMS; ILLITIZATION; INTERLAYER WATERS; MINERAL REACTIONS; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

CLAY MINERALS;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; CLAY MINERAL; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEHYDROXYLATION; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; HEATING; ILLITIZATION; KAOLINITE; KINETICS; SMECTITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 56449108826     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034476     Document Type: Article

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