Earthquakes occur mainly on active faults. Fault slip is closely related to seismicity and is
thus widely discussed in Geosciences, Seismology, and Engineering. Slip experiment is a …

Large seismogenic faults consist of approximately meter-thick fault cores surrounded by
hundreds-of-meters-thick damage zones. Earthquakes are generated by rupture …

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 …

Abstract Intermediate-depth earthquakes (30–300 km) have been extensively documented
within subducting oceanic slabs, but their mechanics remains enigmatic. Here we decipher …

The key role of serpentinites in the global cycles of volatiles, halogens and fluid-mobile
elements in oceans and in subduction zones is now ascertained by many studies …

Recent friction experiments carried out under upper crustal P–T conditions have shown that
microstructures typical of high temperature creep develop in the slip zone of experimental …

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 …

The formation of major exhumed strike-slip faults represents one of the most important
dynamic processes affecting the evolution of the Earth's lithosphere. Detailed models of the …

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 …

Fluids are pervasive in fault zones cutting the Earth's crust; however, the effect of fluid
viscosity on fault mechanics is mainly conjectured by theoretical models. We present friction …