Mirror-like faults and power dissipation during earthquakes

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1175-1178

  Fondriest, Michele ^a,b   Smith, Steven A F ^b,e   Candela, Thibault ^c   Nielsen, Stefan B ^b   Mair, Karen ^d   Toro, Giulio Di ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PHYSICS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRICTION EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; MIRROR-LIKE SURFACE; NATURAL EARTHQUAKE; SLIDING DISPLACEMENTS; TECTONIC MOVEMENTS;

EARTHQUAKES; FRICTION; MIRRORS;

FAULT SLIPS;

DISSIPATION; DOLOSTONE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FAULT GOUGE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84886628783     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34641.1     Document Type: Article

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