Principal Slip Zones in Limestone: Microstructural Characterization and Implications for the Seismic Cycle (Tre Monti Fault, Central Apennines, Italy)

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2365-2393

  Smith, Steven A F ^a   Billi, Andrea ^b   di Toro, Giulio ^a,c   Spiess, Richard ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

clast cortex grains; earthquakes; limestone; localization; Slip zones

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; APENNINES; BASAL DETACHMENT; CALCITE VEINS; CATASTROPHIC LANDSLIDES; CENTRAL ITALY; CLAST-CORTEX GRAINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DAMAGE ZONES; DISSOLUTION SURFACES; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FRACTURE NETWORK; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HIGH VELOCITY; INTERGRANULAR PRESSURE SOLUTIONS; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZED SLIPS; MATRIX; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICRO-STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS; NORMAL FAULTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SLIP SURFACES; SLIP ZONES; SUB-LAYERS; UPPER CRUST;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIZATION; LIMESTONE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FAULT SLIPS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DISSOLUTION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXHUMATION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; FLUIDIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NORMAL FAULT; SLIP RATE; UPPER CRUST;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84863230572     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0267-5     Document Type: Article

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