A coupled fluid-fracture approach to propagation of clastic dikes during earthquakes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 498, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 35-44

  Levi, Tsafrir ^a   Weinberger, Ram ^a   Eyal, Yehuda ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clastic dikes; Dead Sea fault; Hydro fracturing; Propagation; Seismites

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC DIKES; DEAD SEA; HYDRO-FRACTURING; PROPAGATION; SEISMITES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; EARTHQUAKES; TURBULENT FLOW;

LEVEES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ACTIVE FAULT; CLASTIC DIKE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIKE SWARM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBURDEN; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMITE; SOFT ROCK; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 78651501771     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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