Fault zone architecture of the San Jacinto fault zone in Horse Canyon, southern California: A model for focused post-seismic fluid flow and heat transfer in the shallow crust

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 329-330, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-83

  Morton, Nissa ^a   Girty, Gary H ^a   Rockwell, Thomas K ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault zone architecture; Illite smectite; Microstructures; Volumetric strain

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CATACLASITE; CATACLASTIC FLOW; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CLAY MINERALOGY; DAMAGE PROGRESSION; DAMAGE ZONES; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ELEMENTAL MASS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FAULT CORE; FAULT ZONE; FAULT ZONE ARCHITECTURE; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GRAIN DENSITY; HYDROLYSIS REACTION; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; ILLITE/SMECTITE; MINERALOGICAL CHANGES; NEW STUDY; PALYGORSKITES; PORE FLUIDS; PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION; SEISMIC EVENT; SHALLOW CRUST; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TRANSITION ZONES; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN; WATER/ROCK RATIO;

CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEISMOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COMMINUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; ILLITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; POROSITY; SMECTITE; STRAIN;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JACINTO FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84858716442     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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