Rock strength and fault rheology at the Nankai subduction zone: Insight from laboratory experiments

Hiroko Kitajima, Texas A&M University, Center for Tectonophysics and the Department of Geology & Geophysics, College Station, United States, Demian M. Saffer, Penn State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Miki Takahashi, Inst Adv Indust Sci & Tech, Tsukuba, Japan and Makoto Otsubo, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan