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Fault tip displacement gradients and process zone dimensions
Patience A. Cowie,Zoe K. Shipton +1 more
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In this paper, the authors show that when the size of the slipping patch is much smaller than the dimensions of the fault plane, and strength recovery is geologically instantaneous, the displacement profile follows an approximately linear decrease towards the tip similar to natural examples.About:
This article is published in Journal of Structural Geology.The article was published on 1998-08-01. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fault model & Slip (materials science).read more
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The nature and origin of off-fault damage surrounding strike-slip fault zones with a wide range of displacements: A field study from the Atacama fault system, northern Chile
TL;DR: In this paper, microfractures are a combination of open, healed, partially healed and fluid inclusion planes (FIPs) and show an exponential decrease in fracture density with perpendicular distance from the fault core.
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Damage zone and slip-surface evolution over μm to km scales in high-porosity Navajo sandstone, Utah
Zoe K. Shipton,Patience A. Cowie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed mapping of the deformation along two km-scale normal faults in the high-porosity Navajo sandstone, Utah, has been used to investigate fault growth in this lithology.
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An alternative model for the growth of faults
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an alternative growth model where fault lengths are near-constant from an early stage and growth is achieved mainly by increase in cumulative displacement, which predicts a progressive increase in fault displacement to length ratios as a fault system matures.
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Structural controls on hydrothermal flow in a segmented rift system, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
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A conceptual model for the origin of fault damage zone structures in high-porosity sandstone
Zoe K. Shipton,Patience A. Cowie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual model to explain the development of damage zones around faults in high-porosity sandstones, and modify a previously published theoretical model for fault growth in which displacement accumulates by repeated slip events on patches of the fault plane.
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Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes
TL;DR: In this article, a Coulomb failure criterion was proposed for the production of aftershocks, where faults most likely to slip are those optimally orientated for failure as a result of the prevailing regional stress field and the stress change caused by the mainshock.
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8 – theoretical displacements and stresses near fractures in rock: with applications to faults, joints, veins, dikes, and solution surfaces
David Pollard,Paul Segall +1 more
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Displacements, segment linkage and relay ramps in normal fault zones
TL;DR: In this article, a small well-exposed normal fault zone at Kilve, Somerset, U.K., is described, which consists of 34 individual offset and linked fault segments, and a simple model is presented which assumes different displacement gradients inside and outside the influence of relay structures.
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Analysis of the relationship between displacements and dimensions of faults
John J. Walsh,Juan Watterson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived an expression relating width, displacement and material properties of a single fault surface, and used this expression to derive a growth model for a single slip event, where width is proportional to the square root of displacement.
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Fault growth by segment linkage: an explanation for scatter in maximum displacement and trace length data from the Canyonlands Grabens of SE Utah
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the maximum displacement and trace length (L) data for a population of 97 normal faults from the Canyonlands Grabens region of SE Utah, and proposed that a scatter of this magnitude can be explained by a general model for fault growth by segment linkage.