Understanding the partitioning of seismic and aseismic fault slip is central to seismotectonics
as it ultimately determines the seismic potential of faults. Thanks to advances in tectonic …

Faults are ubiquitous throughout the Earth's crust. The majority are silent for decades to
centuries, until they suddenly rupture and produce earthquakes. With a focus on shallow …

At plate boundaries, where deformation is localized along centimetre-to kilometre-scale
shear zones, the influence of serpentinite on tectonic processes is linked to its unique …

Some faults are considered strong because their strength is consistent with the Coulomb
criterion under Byerlee's friction, 0.6< μ< 0.85. In marked contrast, numerous studies have …

Many types of hydrothermal ore deposits form at overpressured conditions during high fluid
flux through fault zones in the continental seismogenic regime. These include many …

The aim of this review is to characterize the role of pressure solution creep in the ductility of
the Earth's upper crust and to describe how this creep mechanism competes and interacts …

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar data are used to map the interseismic velocity field
along the Haiyuan fault system (HFS), at the north‐eastern boundary of the Tibetan plateau …

Stylolites are ubiquitous geo-patterns observed in rocks in the upper crust, from geological
reservoirs in sedimentary rocks to deformation zones, in folds, faults, and shear zones …

In the continents, the importance of earthquakes that occur away from major block‐bounding
faults is still debated. The 21 May 2021 MW∼ 7.4 Maduo earthquake occurred on a …

We present results from a comprehensive laboratory study of the frictional strength and
constitutive properties for all three active strands of the San Andreas Fault penetrated in the …