This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

The structure, frictional properties and permeability of faults within carbonate rocks exhibit a
dynamic interplay that controls both seismicity and the exchange of fluid between different …

We introduce here the concept of Geotribology as an approach to study friction, wear, and
lubrication of geological systems. Methods of geotribology are applied here to characterize …

Since emerging in Brazil in 1985, wheat blast has spread throughout South America and
recently appeared in Bangladesh and Zambia. Here we show that two wheat resistance …

Experiments measuring friction over a wide range of sliding velocities find that the value of
the friction coefficient varies widely: friction is high and behaves according to the rate and …

Pyrite is the most common authigenic mineral preserved in many ancient sedimentary rocks.
Pyrite also widely exists in the Longmaxi and Wufeng marine shales in the middle Yangtze …

Abstract The Vado di Corno Fault Zone (VCFZ) is an active extensional fault cutting through
carbonates in the Italian Central Apennines. The fault zone was exhumed from∼ 2 km depth …

Thermochemical pressurization is a possible weakening mechanism that could explain the
hypermobility of large landslides in carbonate rock. However, the factors controlling the …

A theory of the brittle‐ductile transition (BDT) is shown to be a direct consequence of a
recently developed physics‐based constitutive law for rock friction (Aharonov & Scholz …

Cleavage and fault mirror (FM) are commonly observed in tectonically deformed shales
(TDSs), but their microstructures and effects on reservoir properties are rarely reported. In …