Friction and roughness of a melting rock surface

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 299-310

  Nielsen, S ^a   Toro, G Di ^a,b   Griffith, W A ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Earthquake dynamics; Friction; Rheology and friction of fault zones

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; INTERFACE; MELTING; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SLIDING; SLIP RATE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

EID: 77954647844     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04607.x     Document Type: Article

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