Effect of increased shear stress along a plate boundary fault on the formation of an out-of-sequence thrust and a break in surface slope within an accretionary wedge, based on numerical simulations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 484, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 127-138

  Miyakawa, Ayumu ^a   Yamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsuoka, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedge; Nankai Trough; Numerical simulation; Out of sequence thrust; Plate boundary fault

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BASAL PLANES; FRICTION MODELS; FRICTION ZONE; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; LOW FRICTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SLIDING RESISTANCE; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SURFACE SLOPE; UNDERPLATING;

ABRASION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE EFFECTS; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SURFACES; TRIBOLOGY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT; FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR STRESS; SLIDING; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBDUCTION; THRUST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS RIDGE; INDONESIA; JAPAN; KOCHI [SHIKOKU]; MUROTO PENINSULA; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHIKOKU; SUNDA STRAIT;

EID: 77649084577     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.037     Document Type: Article

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