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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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Active fault zones and groundwater flow
TL;DR: In this article, boundary-element studies of an active strike-slip fault zone subject to fault-parallel loading of 6 MPa show tensile stress concentration in large areas around the fault-zone tips.
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Microscale anatomy of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake fault zone
TL;DR: The microstructures of the Chi-Chi Principal Slip Zone (PSZ) within black gouges localized at 1111 m depth in Hole A and at 1136 m depth at Hole B were described in this paper.
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Fault zone development and strain partitioning in an extensional strike-slip duplex: A case study from the Mesozoic Atacama fault system, Northern Chile
José Cembrano,Gabriel González,Gloria Arancibia,I. Ahumada,Viviana Olivares,Verónica Herrera +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed field mapping of the Mesozoic Atacama fault system in the Coastal Cordillera of Northern Chile is presented, showing the progressive development of second and third-order faults forming a duplex at a dilational jog between two overstepping master faults: the sinistral strike-slip, NNW-striking, Jorgillo and Bolfin faults.
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Simulation of tensile crack generation by three-dimensional dynamic shear rupture propagation during an earthquake
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional shear dynamic rupture process was simulated on the assumption that shear slip occurs only in a preexisting fault and the possibility of introducing new internal cracks that propagate under tensile stress as a consequence of the dynamic process of shear-slip propagation.
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Bedding-plane slip in initial stages of fault-related folding
Michele L. Cooke,David Pollard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the deformation of frictional bedding planes near dipping faults under layerparallel contraction and extension was investigated, and the results showed that the fold shape may be used to infer dip of the underlying fault in situations where the fault may not be observable.
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