Surface roughness evolution on experimentally simulated faults

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-112

  Renard, François ^a,b   Mair, Karen ^b   Gundersen, Olav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Earthquake mechanics; Faulting; Fracture; Frictional sliding; Heat dissipation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION FEATURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANICS; FAULT PLANES; FAULT SURFACES; FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; INFRARED EMISSIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LASER SCANNER; MECHANICAL ABRASION; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; NANOMETER RESOLUTIONS; NORMAL LOADS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; PRODUCTION RATES; ROUGHNESS EVOLUTION; SHEAR RESISTANCES; SLIDING INTERFACES; SLIP DIRECTION; SLIP SURFACES; STRESS FIELD; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; DEFORMATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; FRICTION; HEAT LOSSES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

FAULTING;

ABRASION; ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; HALITE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SLIP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84870390806     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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