Internal structure of the Median Tectonic Line fault zone, SW Japan, revealed by borehole analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 532-535, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-118

  Shigematsu, Norio ^a   Fujimoto, Koichiro ^b   Tanaka, Nobuaki ^b   Furuya, Naoto ^b   Mori, Hiroshi ^c   Wallis, Simon ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borehole; Brittle plastic transition; Differential stress; Fault internal structure; Fault rocks; Median Tectonic Line

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE-PLASTIC TRANSITION; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; FAULT ROCK; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MEDIAN TECTONIC LINE;

BOREHOLES; LINEARIZATION; QUARTZ; ROCKS;

FAULTING;

BOREHOLE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CATACLASITE; DISSOLUTION; FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; HANGING WALL; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SLIP; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84858851549     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.024     Document Type: Article

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