Mineral assemblage anomalies in the slip zone of the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake: Ultrafine particles preserved only in the latest slip zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3052-3059

  Hirono, Tetsuro ^a   Kameda, Jun ^b   Kanda, Hiroki ^a   Tanikawa, Wataru ^c   Ishikawa, Tsuyoshi ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chelungpu fault; comminution; frictional heat

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; EARTHQUAKES; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); QUARTZ; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION INTENSITY; FRICTIONAL HEAT; HEATING EXPERIMENT; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

FAULTING;

CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; COATING; COMMINUTION; HEAT BALANCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MINERAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SLIP;

EID: 84901919114     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059805     Document Type: Article

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