Pulverized fault rocks and damage asymmetry along the Arima-Takatsuki Tectonic Line, Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 284-297

  Mitchell, T M ^a   Ben Zion, Y ^b   Shimamoto, T ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric damage zone; Dynamic fracturing; Fault structure; Pulverized rocks

Indexed keywords

BI-MATERIAL INTERFACES; CONFINING PRESSURES; DAMAGE ZONES; FAULT BRECCIA; FAULT CORE; FAULT ROCK; FAULT STRUCTURE; GENERATION MECHANISM; GRAIN FRAGMENTS; GRAIN SHAPES; IN-SITU; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MACRO SCALE; MICROFRACTURES; NORMAL DISTANCE; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; PULVERIZED ROCKS; ROCK DAMAGE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SLIP ZONES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC; THIN SECTION;

COMMINUTION; GRANITE; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

ROCKS;

BRECCIA; CONFINING PRESSURE; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; FIELD SURVEY; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GRANITE; LABORATORY METHOD; OUTCROP; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; RHYOLITE; RUPTURE; SHEAR STRESS; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TENSILE STRESS;

JAPAN;

EID: 79960565790     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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