The geochemical signature caused by earthquake propagation in carbonate-hosted faults

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 225-232

  De Paola, Nicola ^a   Chiodini, Giovanni ^b   Hirose, Takehiro ^c   Cardellini, Carlo ^d   Caliro, Stefano ^b   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Friction; Isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; CARBONATE AQUIFER; DECARBONATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; EVAPORITES; FRICTIONAL HEATING; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; GEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAIN SHOCK; MINERAL PHASIS; MONITORING STRATEGY; NORTHERN APENNINES; PERICLASE; SEISMIC CONDITION; SEISMIC FAULTS; SEISMIC SLIPS; SHALLOWER AQUIFERS; SLIDING FRICTION COEFFICIENT; SLIP RATES; SLIP ZONES; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE RISE; TRIASSIC;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SILICATE MINERALS; TRIBOLOGY;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DOLOMITE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FRICTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LABORATORY METHOD; SLIP RATE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 80053378184     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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