Mass removal and clay mineral dehydration/rehydration in carbonate-rich surface exposures of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake fault: Geochemical evidence and implications for fault zone evolution and coseismic slip

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 474-496

  Chen, Jianye ^a,b   Yang, Xiaosong ^a   Ma, Shengli ^a   Spiers, Christopher J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CARBONATE; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CLAY MINERAL; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEHYDRATION; DISSOLUTION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; ILLITIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; PARTITIONING; REHYDRATION; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SMECTITE;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; SICHUAN;

EID: 84877051480     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50089     Document Type: Article

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