Rough faults, distributed weakening, and off-fault deformation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Griffith, W Ashley ^a,c   Nielsen, Stefan ^a   Di Toro, Giulio ^a,b   Smith, Steven A F ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PROPAGATION; FRICTION; GRANODIORITE; MICROCRACK; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTCROP; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROUGHNESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956202886     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006925     Document Type: Article

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