Fault slip distribution and fault roughness

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 959-968

  Candela, Thibault ^a   Renard, François ^a,b   Schmittbuhl, Jean ^c   Bouchon, Michel ^a   Brodsky, Emily E ^d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UMR 7063   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Fourier analysis; Friction

Indexed keywords

CREEPING FAULTS; DYNAMICAL EFFECTS; ELASTIC INTERACTIONS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT MODEL; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT SURFACES; FOURIER; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; HOST ROCKS; HURST EXPONENTS; KINEMATIC INVERSION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PRE-STRESS; QUASI-STATIC; QUASI-STATIC MODEL; ROUGH INTERFACES; ROUGHNESS EXPONENT; SELF AFFINITY; SELF-AFFINE; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL FLUCTUATION;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRICTION; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT SLIP; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FRICTION; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRENGTH; STRESS FIELD; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 80054702159     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05189.x     Document Type: Article

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