13. Laboratory-Observed Faulting in Intrinsically and Apparently Weak Materials

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface viii
4. Part I. Introduction
5. 1. The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults 2
6. 2. The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults 15
7. Part II. The Incoming Plate
8. 3. Sediment Inputs to Subduction Zones 42
9. 4. The Thermal State of 18–24 Ma Upper Lithosphere Subducting Below the Nicoya Peninsula, Northern Costa Rica Margin 86
10. 5. Influence of Subducting Topography on Earthquake Rupture 123
11. Part III. Convergent Margin Structure, Fluids, and Subduction Thrust Evolution
12. 6. Pore Pressure and Fluid Flow in the Northern Barbados Accretionary Complex 148
13. 7. Pore Pressure within Underthrust Sediment in Subduction Zones 171
14. 8. Deformation and Mechanical Strength of Sediments at the Nankai Subduction Zone 210
15. 9. The Nicaragua Convergent Margin 257
16. 10. How Accretionary Prisms Elucidate Seismogenesis in Subduction Zones 288
17. Part IV. Laboratory Studies
18. 11. Friction of the Smectite Clay Montmorillonite 317
19. 12. Fault Friction and the Upper Transition from Seismic to Aseismic Faulting 346
20. 13. Laboratory-Observed Faulting in Intrinsically and Apparently Weak Materials 370
21. Part V. Seismic and Geodetic Studies
22. 14. Asperities and Quasi-Static Slips on the Subducting Plate Boundary East of Tohoku, Northeast Japan 451
23. 15. Anomalous Earthquake Ruptures at Shallow Depths on Subduction Zone Megathrusts 476
24. 16. Secular, Transient, and Seasonal Crustal Movements in Japan from a Dense GPS Array 512
25. 17. Elastic and Viscoelastic Models of Crustal Deformation in Subduction Earthquake Cycles 540
26. 18. Distinct Updip Limits to Geodetic Locking and Microseismicity at the Northern Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone 576
27. Part VI. Regional Scale Deformation
28. 19. Collision Versus Subduction 601
29. Subduction and Mountain Building in the Central Andes 624
30. Contributors 661
31. Index 665