Evolving geometrical and material properties of fault zones in a damage rheology model

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Lyakhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Ben Zion, Yehuda ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle deformation; Damage rheology; Evolution of fault zones; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049104449     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002543     Document Type: Article

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