Francesca Meneghini

TL;DR: In this article, the pseudotachylyte was found to be composed of glass, with vesicles, amygdules, microlites, and flow structures, indicating a frictional melt.

TL;DR: Observations suggest that SSEs and associated slow earthquake phenomena are promoted by lithological, mechanical, and frictional heterogeneity within the fault zone, enhanced by geometric complexity associated with subduction of rough crust.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the fabric and the deformational processes of an exhumed subduction zone thrust active at seismogenic depths in the Rodeo Cove thrust zone, which outcrops north of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco, imbricates two basalt-chertsandstone sequences belonging to the Marin Headlands terrane.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a brief history of geological research in the Northern Apennines during the last half of the twentieth century and then a comprehensive picture of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Ligurian units.

TL;DR: In this paper, thermal models suggest that the earthquakes on the plate-boundary thrusts initiate in a temperature range of 125 o C to about 350 o C. Because syndeformational diagenetic and metamorphic alterations recorded in accretionary prisms have specific temperature ranges, the alterations and the associated deformation can be correlated to the temperature range that accretionial prisms are seismogenic.