Viscous strengthening followed by slip weakening during frictional melting of chert

Abstract Pelagic chert is one of the major lithologies in accretionary complexes. Thus, frictional properties of chert at seismic slip rates are important for understanding of earthquake faulting in subduction zones. Here, we conducted high-velocity friction experiments on chert collected from the J...

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Main Authors: Ginta Motohashi, Kiyokazu Oohashi, Kohtaro Ujiie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-019-1035-5