The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Fault zones and fault systems have a key role in the development of the Earth's crust. They
control the mechanics and fluid flow properties of the crust, and the architecture of …

Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation
structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

The interface between subducting oceanic slabs and the hanging wall is a structurally and
lithologically complex region. Chemically disparate lithologies (sedimentary, mafic and …

The slip behavior of major faults depends largely on the frictional and hydrologic properties
of fault gouge. We report on laboratory experiments designed to measure the strength …

The presence of weak phyllosilicates may explain the low shear strengths of fault zones if
they define well‐developed fabrics. The growth of phyllosilicates is favored in meteoric water …

Serpentinization is a key phenomenon for understanding the geodynamics of subduction
zones in the 10–200 km depth range. Serpentines are a major water carrier, and their …

We have shortened 15 schists and gneisses with varying compositions (15–75% mica by
volume) at angles (β) of 45° and 90° to foliation (S) to investigate the influence of micas on …

It is widely believed that around the brittle‐ductile transition, crustal faults can be significantly
weaker than predicted by conventional two‐mechanism brittle‐ductile strength envelopes …