Open AccessNano-powder coating can make fault surfaces smooth and shiny: implications for fault mechanics?
Author(s) -
N. De Paola
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus062013.1
Subject(s) - nano , coating , fault (geology) , geology , powder coating , materials science , nanotechnology , composite material , seismology
Field and microstructural observations on exhumed, inactive, fault segments in plate margin systems show that most of the upper crustal slip occurs in zones with a thickness of less than a few tens of millimeters ([Chester et al., 1993][1]; [Wibberley and Shimamoto, 2003][2]). Slip zones in
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