Implications of the thermal properties and kinetic parameters of dehydroxylation of mica minerals for fault weakening, frictional heating, and earthquake energetics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 161-172

  Hirono, Tetsuro ^a   Tanikawa, Wataru ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical kinetics; Dehydroxylation; Endothermic reaction; Slip weakening; Thermal pressurization

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL KINETICS; DEHYDROXYLATION; ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS; SLIP WEAKENING; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION;

CLAY MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; HEATING; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MICA; MINERALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICATES; SPECIFIC HEAT;

FRICTION;

DEHYDROXYLATION; DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGETICS; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FAULT SLIP; HEATING; ILLITE; MICA; MUSCOVITE; NUCLEATION; P-T CONDITIONS; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957934842     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.042     Document Type: Article

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