Unusually low normal stresses or the presence of very ductile or weak material can result in, FTP, what slow, continuous deformation along a fault, sometimes called aseismic slip?
For timescales longer than the Maxwell time, this is the dominant response in a viscoelastic material. This slowest unconsolidated mass movement is the downhill movement of debris. In metals it occurs under load at high temperatures. Unusually low normal stresses or the presence of very ductile or weak material can result in, FTP, what slow, continuous deformation along a fault, sometimes called aseismic slip?
For timescales longer than the Maxwell time, this is the dominant response in a viscoelastic material.
{creep} (prompt on “aseismic slip”)