Earthquakes have long been recognized as resulting from a stick–slip frictional instability.
The development of a full constitutive law for rock friction now shows that the gamut of …

The transport of water from subducting crust into the mantle is mainly dictated by the stability
of hydrous minerals in subduction zones. The thermal structure of subduction zones is a key …

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 …

Subduction zone plate boundary megathrust faults accommodate relative plate motions with
spatially varying sliding behavior. The 2004 Sumatra‐Andaman (Mw 9.2), 2010 Chile (Mw …

New thermal‐petrologic models of subduction zones are used to test the hypothesis that
intermediate‐depth intraslab earthquakes are linked to metamorphic dehydration reactions …

A wide range of geophysical and geological data indicate that extensive serpentinization in
the forearc mantle is both expected and observed. Large volumes of aqueous fluids must be …

Continuous Global Positioning System sites in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, and
northwestern Washington state, USA, have been moving landward as a result of the locked …

Liquefaction features can be used in many field settings to estimate the recurrence interval
and magnitude of strong earthquakes through much of the Holocene. These features include …

The apatite fission-track method is used to determine the exhumation history of the Olympic
subduction complex, an uplifted part of the modern Cascadia accretionary wedge. Fission …

Subduction thrust faults generate earthquakes over a limited depth range. They are aseismic
in their seaward updip portions and landward downdip of a critical point. The seaward …