Velocities and driving pressures of clay-rich sediments injected into clastic dykes during earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1095-1107

  Levi, Tsafrir ^a,b   Weinberger, Ram ^a   Eyal, Yehuda ^b   Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Heifetz, Eyal ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fracture and flow; Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Palaeoseismology

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC DIKE; DILATION; EMPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FRACTURE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; STRESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 57049113381     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03929.x     Document Type: Article

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