Dynamic seismic ruptures on melting fault zones

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bizzarri, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTODYNAMICS; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79951907144     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007724     Document Type: Article

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