Frictional properties of sedimentary rocks and natural fault gouge from the Longmen Shan fault zone, Sichuan, China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5 B, 2010, Pages 2767-2790

  Verberne, Berend A ^a   He, Changrong ^a   Spiers, Christopher J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING EFFECT; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; PROTOLITHS; QUASI-STATIC; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT RATE; SICHUAN; SICHUAN , CHINA; STRESS DROP; SURFACE RUPTURES; TRIAXIAL TESTING; VELOCITY DEPENDENCE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; LIMESTONE; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRENGTHENING (METAL); TRIBOLOGY;

ROCKS;

DISPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT GOUGE; FRICTION; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 78149476077     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090287     Document Type: Article

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