Rheologic testing of wet kaolin reveals frictional and bi-viscous behavior typical of crustal materials

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cooke, Michele L ^a   Van Der Elst, Nicholas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; KAOLIN; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; RHEOLOGY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CREEP TESTS; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS; EARTH'S CRUST; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; FRICTIONAL MATERIALS; LARGE STRAINS; RHEOLOGICAL DATA; SMALL STRAINS; TABLE-TOP; VISCOUS DEFORMATION;

STRAIN RATE;

ANALOG MODEL; CRUST; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; KAOLIN; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84855903001     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050186     Document Type: Article

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