Splay fault slip in a subduction margin, a new model of evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 341-344, Issue , 2012, Pages 170-175

  Conin, Marianne ^a   Henry, Pierre ^a   Godard, Vincent ^a   Bourlange, Sylvain ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Coseismic rupture; Nankai accretionary wedge; Slip partitioning; Splay fault; Tectonic stress state; Tohoku Oki earthquake

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; COSEISMIC RUPTURE; SLIP PARTITIONING; SPLAY FAULT; TECTONIC STRESS;

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; TECTONICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACTIVE FAULT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DECOLLEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EROSION RATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HANGING WALL; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST FAULT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

KUMANO BASIN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863527892     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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