 Byerlee's law (source code)

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= Byerlee's law
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An empirical relationship summarizing the high friction measured for many rock surfaces as a function of effective normal load. Weak <fault gouge> or high <pore pressure> can produce different effective fault strengths. Named for <James Byerlee>.

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