Frictional sliding in serpentine at very high pressure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Jung, Haemyeong ^a,b,c   Fei, Yingwei ^b   Silver, Paul G ^b   Green II, Harry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

acoustic emissions; dehydration; earthquake mechanism; frictional sliding; high pressure; serpentine

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FAILURES; CHANNEL SYSTEMS; FAULT SLIPS; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; HIGH PRESSURE; LOW PRESSURES; MULTIANVIL APPARATUSES; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; TEMPERATURE RANGES; WAVE TRAVEL TIMES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; SEISMOLOGY; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS;

DEWATERING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; BRITTLE FAILURE; DEFORMATION; DEHYDRATION; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SLIP; FRICTION; HIGH PRESSURE; P-WAVE; PERIDOTITE; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SERPENTINE; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 57749118629     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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