Progressive illitization in fault gouge caused by seismic slip propagation along a megasplay fault in the Nankai Trough

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 995-998

  Yamaguchi, Asuka ^a   Sakaguchi, Arito ^b   Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko ^b   Iijima, Koichi ^b   Kameda, Jun ^a   Kimura, Gaku ^a   Ujiie, Kohtaro ^c   Chester, Frederick M ^d   Fabbri, Olivier ^e   Goldsby, David ^f   Tsutsumi, Akito ^g   Li, Chun Feng ^h   Curewitz, Daniel ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CLAY MINERALOGY; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT SAMPLE; FAULT SYSTEM; FAULT ZONE; FRICTIONAL HEATING; HOST ROCKS; ILLITE-SMECTITE; ILLITIZATION; MINERALOGICAL FEATURES; MIXED-LAYER CLAY; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUPTURE AREAS; SEISMIC SLIPS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP ZONES; THRUST FAULTS; TSUNAMI DISASTER;

CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BRECCIA; CLAY MINERAL; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOST ROCK; ILLITIZATION; MINERALOGY; SEAFLOOR; SHEAR ZONE;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863164876     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32038.1     Document Type: Article

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