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  <dc:creator>William D. Stuart</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1979</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Episodic slip on shallow crustal faults can be qualitatively explained by postulating a fault constitutive law that is the superposition of two limiting material responses: (1) strain softening after peak stress during large strain rates, and (2) strength (peak stress) recovery during aging at small strain rates. A single law permits a variety of seismic and aseismic phenomena to occur over a range of space and time scales. Specific cases are determined by the spatial variation of material constants, recent deformation history, crustal rigidity, and remote forcing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/0040-1951(79)90280-4</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Aging and strain softening model for episodic faulting</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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