Dynamic weakening by nanoscale smoothing during high-velocity fault slip

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 739-742

  Chen, Xiaofeng ^a   Madden, Andrew S ^a   Bickmore, Barry R ^b   Reches, Ze'ev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b N243 Eyring Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; NANOSCALE FRICTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE VALUES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SUBMICRON SCALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FAULT SLIPS;

FAULT PLANE; FAULT SLIP; FRICTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLIP RATE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84880306820     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34169.1     Document Type: Article

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