Hydrogeology and mechanics of subduction zone forearcs: Fluid flow and pore pressure

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 157-186

  Saffer, Demian M ^a   Tobin, Harold J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

accretionary wedge; fault strength; overpressure; permeability; seismogenic zone

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; FAULT STRENGTH; OVERPRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; SEISMOGENIC ZONES;

FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICS; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMOGRAPHS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEHYDRATION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METAMORPHISM; MINERAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; SOLUTE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 79955491018     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133408     Document Type: Article

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