Does interseismic strain localization near strike-slip faults result from boundary conditions or rheological structure?

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-62

  Traore N ^a,b   Pourhiet, Le ^a,b   Frelat, J ^a,b   Rolandone, F ^a,b   Meyer, B ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Creep and deformation; Dynamics and mechanics of faulting; Fault zonerheology; Mechanics, theory and modelling; Numerical approximations and analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: STRIKE-SLIP AND TRANSFORMS; CREEP AND DEFORMATIONS; DYNAMICS AND MECHANICS OF FAULTING; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS AND ANALYSIS; THEORY AND MODELLING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SCREW DISLOCATIONS; SCREWS; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULTS; VELOCITY;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CREEP; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEODESY; GEODETIC DATUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRAIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EID: 84897832038     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu011     Document Type: Article

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