Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 891-894

  Ikari, Matt J ^a   Niemeijer, André R ^b   Spiers, Christopher J ^b   Kopf, Achim J ^a   Saffer, Demian M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE NUCLEATION; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCHES; STICK-SLIP BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY-WEAKENING;

BUILDINGS; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SLIP FORMING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; INSTABILITY; LITHOLOGY; SEAFLOOR; SEISMICITY; SLIP; STICK-SLIP; SUBDUCTION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRENCH;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84887826844     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33956.1     Document Type: Article

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