Evidence for initiation of frictional partial slip as the mechanism behind nonlinear stress-strain hysteresis in rock fractures under seismic-frequency torsion

Seth Saltiel1, Brian P Bonner1, Brent Delbridge2 and Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Berkeley Seismological Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States