Energetics of Chemical Alteration in Fault Zones and its Relationship to the Seismic Cycle

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 181-191

  Jacobs, Joseph R ^a,b   Evans, James P ^a   Kolesar, Peter T ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation; Faults (Geology); Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CLAY MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MICA; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; DAMAGE ZONES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ENTHALPIES OF FORMATION; FAULT GOUGE; PRIMARY SOURCES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THERMODYNAMIC VALUES;

FAULTING;

EID: 70349469260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM18     Document Type: Chapter

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