Off-fault tensile cracks: A link between geological fault observations, lab experiments, and dynamic rupture models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ngo, D ^a   Huang, Y ^b   Rosakis, A ^a   Griffith, W A ^c   Pollard, D ^d  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT SLIP; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RUPTURE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TENSILE STRESS;

EID: 84863019408     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008577     Document Type: Article

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