Nano-powder coating can make fault surfaces smooth and shiny: Implications for fault mechanics?

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 719-720

  De Paola, Nicola ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT PROPAGATION; GEOMECHANICS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 84878206949     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus062013.1     Document Type: Article

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