Nanograins form carbonate fault mirrors

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 703-706

  Siman Tov, Shalev ^a   Aharonov, Einat ^a   Sagy, Amir ^b   Emmanuel, Simon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CALCITE CRYSTALS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; FRICTION REDUCTION; FRICTIONAL SLIDING; GEOLOGICAL FAULT; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; SUBGRAIN BOUNDARIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRICTION; MIRRORS;

FAULTING;

ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CALCITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT SLIP; FORMATION MECHANISM; FRICTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SHEAR ZONE; SLIDING; TECTONIC SETTING;

DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 84878175892     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34087.1     Document Type: Article

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