Pseudotachylyte-Bearing Strike-Slip Faults in Mylonitic Host Rocks, Fort Foster Brittle Zone, Kittery, Maine

Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 167-179

  Swanson, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ADHESIVE WEARS; BOUNDARY ZONES; COSEISMIC SLIPS; FRICTIONAL HEAT; INJECTION VEINS; LATE PALEOZOIC; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; SLIDING SURFACE;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 84951127040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/170GM17     Document Type: Chapter

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