Porosity and particle shape changes leading to shear localization in small-displacement faults

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1712-1720

  Hadizadeh, Jafar ^a   Sehhati, Reza ^b,c   Tullis, Terry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

^c BergerABAM   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gouge porosity; Particle shape and size; Particle size distribution; Shear localization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DEFORMATION; FAULT GOUGE; FRACTAL DISTRIBUTION; GOUGE POROSITY; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; MASKING EFFECT; MICRO-POROUS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLE SHAPE AND SIZE; PARTICLE-SIZE DATA; POROSITY CHANGES; POROSITY REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT; SHEAR LOCALIZATIONS; SHEAR ZONE;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

POROSITY;

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GOUGE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR ZONE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78649775097     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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