Characteristics of the fault-related rocks, fault zones and the principal slip zone in the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Project Hole-1 (WFSD-1)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-42

  Li, Haibing ^a,b   Wang, Huan ^a,b   Xu, Zhiqin ^a,b   Si, Jialiang ^a,b   Pei, Junling ^a,c   Li, Tianfu ^a,b   Huang, Yao ^d   Song, Sheng Rong ^e   Kuo, Li Wei ^e   Sun, Zhiming ^a,c   Chevalier, Marie Luce ^a,b   Liu, Dongliang ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory of Continental Tectonic and Dynamics   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d Jiangsu Geology and Mineral Resources Bureau   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fault related rocks; Principal slip zone (PSZ); Wenchuan earthquake; Wenchuan earthquake fault scientific drilling project (WFSD); WFSD 1; Yingxiu Beichuan fault zone

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FAULT-RELATED ROCKS; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SLIP ZONES; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WFSD-1;

BOREHOLES; EARTHQUAKES; GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

FAULT SLIPS;

BRECCIA; CATACLASITE; CORE ANALYSIS; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; PETROLOGY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SLIP;

BEICHUAN; CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN; YINGXIU;

EID: 84872410463     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.021     Document Type: Article

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