Designer friction laws for bimodal slow slip propagation speeds

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rubin, Allan M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

rate and state friction; slow slip

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ELASTICITY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SPEED; TRIBOLOGY;

AT-SPEED; CASCADIA; ELASTIC SHEAR MODULUS; FRICTION LAWS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROPAGATION SPEED; RATE-AND-STATE FRICTION; SLIP PROPAGATION; SLIP SPEED; SLIP SURFACES; SLOW SLIP; STRENGTH DROP; TWO-STATE; VARIABLE FRICTIONS;

FRICTION;

ACTIVE FAULT; ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; MICROTREMOR; NUMERICAL METHOD; SHEAR MODULUS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

CASCADIA MARGIN; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79955451039     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003386     Document Type: Article

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