Roughness of fault surfaces over nine decades of length scales

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Candela, Thibault ^a,b   Renard, Franois ^a,c   Klinger, Yann ^d   Mair, Karen ^c   Schmittbuhl, Jean ^e   Brodsky, Emily E ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; FAULT SCARP; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SLIP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84865312397     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB009041     Document Type: Article

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