Fault on-off versus coseismic fluids reaction

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 767-780

  Doglioni, C ^a,c   Barba, S ^b   Carminati, E ^a,c   Riguzzi, F ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brittle ductile transition; Earthquake; Fault activation; Fluids response

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 84922537039     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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