Dehydration-induced damage and deformation in gypsum and implications for subduction zone processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Brantut, N ^a,b   Schubnel, A ^a   David, E C ^c   Heripre E ^d   Gueguen Y ^a   Dimanov, A ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES SOLIDES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINING PRESSURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DAMAGE; DEFORMATION; DEHYDRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; GYPSUM; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; POROSITY; S-WAVE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84858318017     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008730     Document Type: Article

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