Clay fabric intensity in natural and artificial fault gouges: Implications for brittle fault zone processes and sedimentary basin clay fabric evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Haines, Samuel H ^a   Van Der Pluijm, Ben A ^a   Ikari, Matt J ^b   Saffer, Demian M ^b   Marone, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AUTHIGENESIS; CLAY; COMPACTION; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; GEOSYNTHETICS; LABORATORY METHOD; PHYLLOSILICATE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651113867     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005866     Document Type: Article

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