Contact analyses and permeability measurements of polished fracture surfaces in Sambagawa metapelitic schists and Ryoke mylonites from the Median Tectonic Line, Japan

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Uehara, Shin Ichi ^b   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; METAPELITE; MYLONITE; PERMEABILITY; SCHIST; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 69249083701     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005744     Document Type: Article

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