Frictional strength and wear-rate of carbonate faults during high-velocity, steady-state sliding

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 381, Issue , 2013, Pages 127-137

  Boneh, Yuval ^a,c   Sagy, Amir ^b   Reches, Ze'ev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Earth and Planetary Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental; Faulting; Friction; High slip velocity; Wear

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE TO DUCTILE TRANSITION; EXPERIMENTAL; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL HEATING; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; SLIP VELOCITY; TRANSITION REGIMES;

EXPERIMENTS; FAULTING; SHEAR FLOW; TRIBOLOGY; VELOCITY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

FRICTION;

CARBONATE ROCK; DISPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT; FRICTION; ROCK MECHANICS; SLIDING; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRENGTH; WEAR;

EID: 84884383619     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.050     Document Type: Article

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