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The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
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The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws -producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events.Abstract:
This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures. The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena; friction of phyllosilicates, and at high sliding velocities; fault structures; relative roles of strong and seismogenic versus weak and creeping faults; dynamic triggering of earthquakes; oceanic earthquakes; megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones; deep earthquakes; and new observations of earthquake precursory phenomena.read more
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Slip accumulation and lateral propagation of active normal faults in Afar
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Large-scale hydration of the lithosphere above subducting slabs
TL;DR: In this article, the petrologic evolution of subducting oceanic lithosphere and the overriding continental/oceanic seafloor can be predicted by integrating thermal models with petrologics phase equilibria.
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Invited review paper: Fault creep caused by subduction of rough seafloor relief
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Cubic law with aperture-length correlation: implications for network scale fluid flow
TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of flow simulations through fracture networks using the discrete fracture network model (DFN) was examined and the importance of the correlated square root relationship of displacement to length scaling for total flow through natural opening-mode fractures was emphasized.
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Molecular stick-slip motion revealed by opening dna with piconewton forces
TL;DR: The forces measured during this process show a sequence specific variation on the piconewton scale, which is explained as a molecular stick-slip motion which does not involve instabilities and is determined by the sequence.
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