Fault rock injections record paleo-earthquakes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 154-166

  Rowe, Christie D ^a   Kirkpatrick, James D ^a   Brodsky, Emily E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic weakening; Gouge; Injection veins; Overpressure; Pseudotachylyte; Thermal pressurization

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASURES; DYNAMIC TENSION; ELASTIC MODELS; ELASTIC STRAIN; FAULT ROCK; FAULT SURFACES; FAULT ZONE; GOUGE; HEIGHT RATIO; HOST ROCKS; OVER-PRESSURES; OVERPRESSURE; PERMANENT DEFORMATIONS; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; SEISMIC SIGNATURES; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION; UPPER BOUND;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; CRACKS; FLUIDIZATION; WALL ROCK;

DIRECT INJECTION;

CRACK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; FLUIDIZATION; HOST ROCK; MICROCRACK; OVERPRESSURE; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SHEAR STRAIN; SLIP; WALL ROCK;

EID: 84862256907     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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