Nanocrystalline Principal Slip Zones and Their Role in Controlling Crustal Fault Rheology

Nanocrystalline Principal Slip Zones and Their Role in Controlling Crustal Fault Rheology

Principal slip zones (PSZs) are narrow (<10 cm) bands of localized shear deformation that occur in the cores of upper-crustal fault zones where they accommodate the bulk of fault displacement. Natural and experimentally-formed PSZs consistently show the presence of nanocrystallites in the &am...

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Main Authors: Berend A. Verberne, Oliver Plümper, Christopher J. Spiers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Minerals
Subjects:
nanograins
principal slip zone
crystallographic preferred orientation
amorphization
mirror-slip surface
faults
earthquakes
localization
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/6/328

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