The Effects of Flash-Weakening and Damage on the Evolution of Fault Strength and Temperature

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 263-270

  Rempel, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation; Faults (Geology); Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FAULTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

ASPERITY CONTACTS; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FLUID PRESSURIZATION; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; RELATIVE MOTION; STATE-DEPENDENT; STRAIN-RATE-DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE RISE;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 84951041081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM26     Document Type: Chapter

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