Chemical controls on fault behavior: Weakening of serpentinite sheared against quartz-bearing rocks and its significance for fault creep in the San Andreas system

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2558-2570

  Moore, Diane E ^a   Lockner, David A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT ZONE; PHYLLOSILICATE; PLATE TECTONICS; QUARTZ; SOLUBILITY; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882807115     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50140     Document Type: Article

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