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Strike-slip faults

Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1988
The importance of strike-slip faulting was recognized near the turn of the century, chiefly from investigations of surficial offsets associated with major earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan, and California. Extrapolation from observed horizontal displacements during single earthquakes to more abstract concepts of long-term, slow accumulation of hundreds
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Seismicity, Fault Slip Rates, and Fault Interactions in a Fault System

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2020
AbstractSeismicity and the partitioning of slip rates in interacting and mechanically coupled fault systems are poorly understood. We developed and used three‐dimensional viscoelastoplastic finite element models to simulate earthquakes, earthquake cycles, and synthetic seismicity in single and bifurcated fault systems and investigate seismicity, fault ...
Yajing Gao, Gang Luo, Yunqiang Sun
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Earthquake slip on oceanic transform faults

Nature, 2001
Oceanic transform faults are one of the main types of plate boundary, but the manner in which they slip remains poorly understood. Early studies suggested that relatively slow earthquake rupture might be common; moreover, it has been reported that very slow slip precedes some oceanic transform earthquakes, including the 1994 Romanche earthquake.
R E, Abercrombie, G, Ekström
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Fault Displacement Hazard for Strike-Slip Faults

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2011
In this paper we present a methodology, data, and regression equations for calculating the fault rupture hazard at sites near steeply dipping, strike-slip faults. We collected and digitized on-fault and off-fault displacement data for 9 global strike- slip earthquakes ranging from moment magnitude M 6.5 to M 7.6 and supplemented these with ...
M. D. Petersen, T. E. Dawson, R. Chen, T. Cao, C. J. Wills, D. P. Schwartz, A. D. Frankel   +6 more
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Trace-Slip Faults

AAPG Bulletin, 1941
A trace-slip fault is one on which direction of movement is parallel with the trace of planar elements on the fault plane. It is characterized by lack of the usual stratigraphic criteria of faulting. Several cases of trace-slip faults encountered in the field are presented.
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Study of fault slip modes

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth, 2016
We present the data of the laboratory experiments on studying the regularities of gradual transition from the stick-slip behavior to aseismic creeping on the interblock boundary. The experiments show that small variations in the material composition in the principal slip zones of the faults may cause a significant change in the fraction of seismic ...
V. V. Adushkin, G. G. Kocharyan, V. A. Novikov   +2 more
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Slip heterogeneity on a corrugated fault

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2009
Abstract Slip heterogeneity reflects the fundamental physics of earthquake rupture and has been attributed to strong fault patches termed asperities or barriers. We propose that variations in fault-surface orientation due to slip-parallel corrugations may act as geometric asperities and barriers, generating variations in incremental (i.e.
Phillip G. Resor, Vanessa E. Meer
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Strike-Slip Fault

2014
Stress orientation responsible for formation of strike slip fault is described along with rheological controls on development of the fault. Conjugate strike slip faults are discussed with special reference to necessity of rotation of faults with progressive deformation.
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Solution slip and separations on strike-slip fault zones: theory and application to the Mattinata Fault, Italy

Journal of Structural Geology, 2003
We present a set of relationships to determine the component of slip and separations generated by the cleavage-controlled volume contraction in strike-slip fault zones. The fault walls can translate toward each other along the (cleavage-normal) axis of maximum shortening as rock is dissolved by pressure solution along patterned cleavage surfaces within
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Mechanics and interpretations of fault slip

2006
Profiles of fault slip reflect the redistribution of strain energy associated with faulting. Real slip profiles typically are irregular and commonly are drawn as piece-wise linear, although the data permit other interpretations. In a linear elastic body, stress singularities would occur at the ends of profile segments along which slip varies linearly ...
Stephen J. Martel, Christin Shacat
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