Ductile deformation explains the physics of rock friction

James Daniel Paul Moore1, Giacomo Pozzi2, Stefan Bjorklund Nielsen2, Lars N Hansen3, Nicola Paola4, Jun Muto5, Eric Ostrom Lindsey6 and Simon Henry Lamb7, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)Durham University, Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (5)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand