Inferring Earthquake Source Properties from Laboratory Observations and the Scope of Lab Contributions to Source Physics

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-119

  Beeler, N M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FRACTURE ENERGY; FRICTION; LABORATORIES; MELTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; SILICA GEL; TEMPERATURE;

APPARENT STRESS; DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; ENERGY BUDGETS; EXCEPTIONAL EVENTS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES;

FAULTING;

EID: 84951096547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM12     Document Type: Chapter

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