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Mechanics, Structure and Evolution of Fault Zones

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Editors:
  1. Yehuda Ben-Zion

    1. Department Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Charles Sammis

    1. Department Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

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  • This volume provides state-of-the-art theoretical and observational results on the mechanics, structure and evolution of fault zones
  • Subjects discussed include damage rheologies, development of instabilities, fracture and friction studies, dynamic rupture experiments, and analyses of earthquake and fault zone data

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Considerable progress has been made recently in quantifying geometrical and physical
properties of fault surfaces and adjacent fractured and granulated damage zones in
active faulting environments. There has also been significant progress in developing
rheologies and computational frameworks that can model the dynamics of fault zone
processes. This volume provides state-of-the-art theoretical and observational results
on the mechanics, structure and evolution of fault zones. Subjects discussed include
damage rheologies, development of instabilities, fracture and friction, dynamic rupture
experiments, and analyses of earthquake and fault zone data.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Mechanics, Structure and Evolution of Fault Zones

    • Yehuda Ben-Zion, Charles Sammis
    Pages 1533-1536

  3. Structural Properties and Deformation Patterns of Evolving Strike-slip Faults: Numerical Simulations Incorporating Damage Rheology

    • Yaron Finzi, Elizabeth H. Hearn, Yehuda Ben-Zion, Vladimir Lyakhovsky
    Pages 1537-1573

  4. Segmentation along Strike-Slip Faults Revisited

    • Ghislain de Joussineau, Atilla Aydin
    Pages 1575-1594

  5. Influence of Outcrop Scale Fractures on the Effective Stiffness of Fault Damage Zone Rocks

    • W. Ashley Griffith, Pablo F. Sanz, David D. Pollard
    Pages 1595-1627

  6. Effects of Off-fault Damage on Earthquake Rupture Propagation: Experimental Studies

    • Charles G. Sammis, Ares J. Rosakis, Harsha S. Bhat
    Pages 1629-1648

  7. Geometry of the Nojima Fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan — I. A Simple Damage Structure Inferred from Borehole Core Permeability

    • David A. Lockner, Hidemi Tanaka, Hisao Ito, Ryuji Ikeda, Kentaro Omura, Hisanobu Naka
    Pages 1649-1667

  8. Geometry of the Nojima Fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan — II. Microstructures and their Implications for Permeability and Strength

    • Diane E. Moore, David A. Lockner, Hisao Ito, Riuji Ikeda, Hidemi Tanaka, Kentaro Omura
    Pages 1669-1691

  9. The Energetics of Cataclasis Based on Breakage Mechanics

    • Giang D. Nguyen, Itai Einav
    Pages 1693-1724

  10. Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Pulverized Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults: Implications for Earthquake Physics

    • Thomas Rockwell, Matthew Sisk, Gary Girty, Ory Dor, Neta Wechsler, Yehuda Ben-Zion
    Pages 1725-1746

  11. Characterization of Damage in Sandstones along the Mojave Section of the San Andreas Fault: Implications for the Shallow Extent of Damage Generation

    • Ory Dor, Judith S. Chester, Yehuda Ben-Zion, James N. Brune, Thomas K. Rockwell
    Pages 1747-1773

  12. Constructing Constitutive Relationships for Seismic and Aseismic Fault Slip

    • N. M. Beeler
    Pages 1775-1798

  13. Nonplanar Faults: Mechanics of Slip and Off-fault Damage

    • James H. Dieterich, Deborah Elaine Smith
    Pages 1799-1815

  14. Characterization of Fault Roughness at Various Scales: Implications of Three-Dimensional High Resolution Topography Measurements

    • Thibault Candela, François Renard, Michel Bouchon, Alexandre Brouste, David Marsan, Jean Schmittbuhl et al.
    Pages 1817-1851

  15. Spatio-temporal Slip, and Stress Level on the Faults within the Western Foothills of Taiwan: Implications for Fault Frictional Properties

    • Ya-Ju Hsu, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Shui-Beih Yu, Chien-Hsin Chang, Yih-Min Wu, Jochen Woessner
    Pages 1853-1884

  16. Landslides, Ice Quakes, Earthquakes: A Thermodynamic Approach to Surface Instabilities

    • Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, David A. Yuen, Florian Fusseis
    Pages 1885-1908
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department Earth Sciences, University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

    Yehuda Ben-Zion, Charles Sammis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanics, Structure and Evolution of Fault Zones

  • Editors: Yehuda Ben-Zion, Charles Sammis

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0138-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0346-0137-5Published: 19 October 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0346-0138-2Published: 30 December 2009

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 376

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general

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