Seismically damaged regolith as self-organized fragile geological feature

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Sleep, Norman H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

paleoseismology; peak ground velocity; regolith; velocity pulse

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ELASTIC MODULI; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR WAVES;

ACTIVE AREA; CALIFORNIA; COULOMB FAILURE; CRACKED ROCKS; DYNAMIC VELOCITY; ELASTIC LIMIT; FREE SURFACES; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; INTACT ROCKS; LOVE WAVE; NEAR-FIELD; NONLINEAR ATTENUATION; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; PEAK GROUND VELOCITY; REGOLITH; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMICALLY ACTIVE REGION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SHEAR TRACTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSIENT CHANGES; VELOCITY PULSE; VERTICAL PLANE; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

SHEAR FLOW;

COULOMB CRITERION; CRACK; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GROUND MOVEMENT; REGOLITH; S-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE VELOCITY;

CAJON PASS; CALIFORNIA; SAN FERNANDO VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055182898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003837     Document Type: Article

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