Strong sediments at the deformation front, and weak sediments at the rear of the Nankai accretionary prism, revealed by triaxial deformation experiments

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4791-4810

  Stipp, Michael ^a   Rolfs, Malte ^b   Kitamura, Yujin ^c   Behrmann, Jan H ^a   Schumann, Kai ^a   Schulte Kortnack, Detlef ^d   Feeser, Volker ^d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

clay rich soft sediments; distributed ductile and localized brittle deformation; failure; NanTroSEIZE; surface break; updip end of the seismogenic zone

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; NANTROSEIZE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SOFT SEDIMENTS; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; FAULTING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PRISMS; SEDIMENTS; STRAIN;

DEFORMATION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONFINING PRESSURE; CONSOLIDATION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GRAIN SIZE; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; NANKAI; TIANJIN;

EID: 84893299537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20290     Document Type: Article

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