Fault Stress States, Pore Pressure Distributions, and the Weakness of the San Andreas Fault

International Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue C, 1992, Pages 475-503

  Rice, James R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956807601     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-6142(08)62835-1     Document Type: Article

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