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Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness (2018)
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Tesei, T., Harbord, C., De Paola, N., Collettini, C., & Viti, C. (2018). Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 123(8), 6976-6991. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016058

Serpentines are common minerals in several major tectonic faults in a variety of geodynamic settings and have variable frictional strength and complex deformation processes. Here we present friction experiments carried out on a suite of serpentine sa... Read More about Friction of Mineralogically Controlled Serpentinites and Implications for Fault Weakness.