Effect of initial damage on rock pulverization along faults

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-124

  Doan, Mai Linh ^a   d'Hour, Virginie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active fault; Dynamic damage; High strain rate experiments; Pulverized rocks; Weibull theory

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DAMAGE ZONES; DIFFUSE DAMAGE; DYNAMIC DAMAGE; FAULT CORE; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH STRAIN RATES; INITIAL DAMAGE; ROCK PULVERIZATION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STATISTICAL THEORY; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; WEIBULL THEORY;

DAMAGE DETECTION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; ROCKS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

STRAIN RATE;

ACTIVE FAULT; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMIC WAVE; STRAIN RATE; WEIBULL THEORY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870391099     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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