Ductile deformation of the lithospheric mantle

JM Warren, LN Hansen - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The strength of lithospheric plates is a central component of plate tectonics, governed by
brittle processes in the shallow portion of the plate and ductile behavior in the deeper …

Recent advances in characterizing the crustal stress field and future applications of stress data: perspectives from North America

JE Lundstern - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The stress field controls patterns of crustal deformation, including which faults are likeliest to
cause earthquakes or transmit fluids. Since the 1950s, maps of maximum horizontal stress …

Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries

Z Wang, SC Singh, C Prigent, EPM Gregory… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transform faults accommodate the lateral motions between lithospheric plates, producing
large earthquakes. Away from active transform boundaries, former oceanic transform faults …

Constitutive behavior of rocks during the seismic cycle

S Barbot - AGU Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Establishing a constitutive law for fault friction is a crucial objective of earthquake science.
However, the complex frictional behavior of natural and synthetic gouges in laboratory …

Pulse-like ruptures, seismic swarms, and tremorgenic slow-slip events with thermally activated friction

B Wang, S Barbot - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The evolution of frictional resistance on a fault affects the characteristics of seismic ruptures.
A wide range of rupture styles, from slow-slip events to fast earthquakes, can be explained …

Fluid-assisted grain size reduction leads to strain localization in oceanic transform faults

M Bickert, MA Kaczmarek, D Brunelli, M Maia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Oceanic Transform Faults are major plate boundaries representing the most
seismogenic part of the mid ocean ridge system. Nonetheless, their structure and …

A reciprocity‐based efficient method for improved source parameter estimation of submarine earthquakes with hybrid 3‐D teleseismic Green's functions

C Zang, W Wu, S Ni, M Xu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate source parameters of global submarine earthquakes are essential for
understanding earthquake mechanics and tectonic dynamics. Previous studies have …

Seismicity, fault architecture, and slip mode of the westernmost Gofar transform fault

J Gong, W Fan - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic transform faults accommodate plate motions through both seismic and aseismic
slips. However, deformation partition and slip mode interaction at these faults remain elusive …