Sentences with phrase «frictional strength»
U.S. Geological Survey scientist Jeanne Hardebeck calculated the frictional strength of subduction zone faults worldwide, and the stresses they are under.
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That increasing pressure reduces the frictional strength of faults, Abers explains, allowing them to slip.
A «strong» fault has the frictional strength equivalent to an artificial fault cut in a rock sample in the laboratory.
«This upward movement pulls the soil structure upward, thereby reducing the frictional strength along the base of the landslide, which is essentially a solid block sliding on a surface,» says Schulz.
«The reduced frictional strength is sufficient to trigger landslide movement.»
Not exact matches
Its central black hole is as massive as 16 million suns, and the region of space surrounding it shines with the strength of 1 trillion suns — energy derived, in part, from intense frictional heating within the disk of gas being sucked into the maw.