Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion

CD Rowe, WA Griffith - Journal of Structural Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Exhumed fault zones offer insights into deformation processes associated with earthquakes
in unparalleled spatial resolution; however it can be difficult to differentiate seismic slip from …

Inferring earthquake physics and chemistry using an integrated field and laboratory approach

A Niemeijer, G Di Toro, WA Griffith, A Bistacchi… - Journal of Structural …, 2012 - Elsevier
Earthquakes are the result of a combination of (1) physico-chemical processes operating in
fault zones, which allow ruptures to nucleate and rock friction to decrease with increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Disappearing ink: How pseudotachylytes are lost from the rock record

JD Kirkpatrick, CD Rowe - Journal of Structural Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Melt-origin pseudotachylytes are the most widely accepted feature recording earthquake slip
in the fault rock record. However, reports of pseudotachylytes are rare compared to the …

Frictional melting of gabbro under extreme experimental conditions of normal stress, acceleration, and sliding velocity

A Niemeijer, G Di Toro, S Nielsen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of high‐velocity shear apparatus, several experimental studies have been
performed in recent years, improving our understanding of the evolution of fault strength …

Evolution of physical and mechanical properties of cementing materials during underground energy exploitation and storage

F Xu, Z Xu, S Tang, Q Ren, Y Guo, L Wang, Z Hou… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The sealing problem of cement sheath often appears in gas wells for the increasing depth of
underground energy exploitation and storage, especially when horizontal multi-stage …

Friction-damage coupled models and macroscopic strength criteria for ice-saturated frozen silt with crack asperity variation by a micromechanical approach

LY Zhao, YM Lai, JF Shao, WL Zhang, QZ Zhu… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to present physical friction-damage coupled models and derive
macroscopic nonlinear strength criteria for ice-saturated frozen silt. Two material scales are …

The fault-controlled Chengtian landslide triggered by rainfall on 20 May 2021 in Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, China

F Wang, Y Chen, X Peng, G Zhu, K Yan, Z Ye - Landslides, 2022 - Springer
The geological structures of fault zones control the occurrence of landslides and determine
their characteristics and motion styles, especially in igneous rock areas with high rock …

Effect of water and rock composition on re-strengthening of cohesive faults during the deceleration phase of seismic slip pulses

M Violay, F Passelègue, E Spagnuolo, G Di Toro… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The elastic strain energy release rate and seismic waves emitted during earthquakes are
controlled by the on-fault temporal evolution of the shear stress during rupture propagation …

The depth of pseudotachylyte formation from detailed thermochronology and constraints on coseismic stress drop variability

JD Kirkpatrick, KJ Dobson, DF Mark… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudotachylytes are accepted as recording paleo‐seismicity in the rock record. However,
the interpretation of the mechanics of faulting based on pseudotachylyte generation is often …

From slow to fast faulting: recent challenges in earthquake fault mechanics

S Nielsen - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Faults—thin zones of highly localized shear deformation in the Earth—accommodate strain
on a momentous range of dimensions (millimetres to hundreds of kilometres for major plate …