Transport properties and dynamic processes in a fault zone from samples recovered from TCDP Hole B of the Taiwan Chelungpu Fault Drilling Project

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Tanikawa, Wataru ^a   Sakaguchi, Masumi ^b   Hirono, Tetsuro ^c   Lin, Weiren ^a   Soh, Wonn ^a   Song, Sheng Rong ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MARINE WORKS JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chelungpu fault; Chi Chi earthquake; Permeability; TCDP; Thermal pressurization

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449165475     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002269     Document Type: Article

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