Reversed-polarity secondary deformation structures near fault stepovers

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ben Zion, Yehuda ^a   Rockwell, Thomas K ^b   Shi, Zheqiang ^b   Xu, Shiqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT SCALE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SECTIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; NEAR FAULT; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STEP-OVERS; UNIDIRECTIONAL PULSE; VOLUMETRIC DEFORMATION;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 84859907015     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: 15289036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006154     Document Type: Article

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