Displacement-length scaling of brittle faults in ductile shear

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1650-1661

  Grasemann, Bernhard ^a   Exner, Ulrike ^a   Tschegg, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cyclades; Displacement gradient; Displacement profiles; Displacement length scaling; Flanking structures; Triclinic structures

Indexed keywords

CYCLADES; DISPLACEMENT GRADIENT; DISPLACEMENT PROFILES; DISPLACEMENT-LENGTH SCALING; FLANKING STRUCTURES; TRICLINIC STRUCTURES;

CRACKS; DRAG; SHEARING;

SHEARING MACHINES;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FOLIATION; JOINT; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE;

EID: 80054873790     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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