Low- to high-velocity frictional properties of the clay-rich gouges from the slipping zone of the 1963 Vaiont slide, northern Italy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Ferri, Fabio ^a   Di Toro, Giulio ^a,b   Hirose, Takehiro ^c   Han, Raehee ^d   Noda, Hiroyuki ^e   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^f   Quaresimin, Marino ^a   De Rossi, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

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

^d Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRICTION; HUMIDITY; LANDSLIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; POREWATER; SLOPE ANGLE; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SMECTITE;

ITALY;

EID: 80053614850     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008338     Document Type: Article

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