Silica gel formation during fault slip: Evidence from the rock record

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1015-1018

  Kirkpatrick, J D ^a,d   Rowe, C D ^b   White, J C ^c   Brodsky, E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICA; CRYSTALLINE SILICA; DYNAMIC REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT STRENGTH; KINEMATIC INDICATORS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SAN FRANCISCO , CALIFORNIA;

EXPERIMENTS; FAULT SLIPS; FRICTION; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); QUARTZ;

SILICA GEL;

CATACLASITE; COMMINUTION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT SLIP; FORMATION MECHANISM; FRICTION; GEL; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICA; SLICKENSIDE; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882966815     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34483.1     Document Type: Article

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