Creep cavitation can establish a dynamic granular fluid pump in ductile shear zones

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7249, 2009, Pages 974-977

  Fusseis, F ^a   Regenauer Lieb, K ^a,b   Liu, J ^b   Hough, R M ^b   De Carlo, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CAVITATION; CREEP; CRUST; DUCTILITY; FLUID FLOW; GEODYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ARTICLE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; EARTHQUAKE; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENT; FLUID FLOW; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SHEAR FLOW; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

EID: 67649297982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08051     Document Type: Article

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