The recognition of slow earthquakes in geodetic and seismological data has transformed the
understanding of how plate motions are accommodated at major plate boundaries. Slow …

Melt-origin pseudotachylytes are the most widely accepted feature recording earthquake slip
in the fault rock record. However, reports of pseudotachylytes are rare compared to the …

Like many large, crustal-scale faults, the Median Tectonic Line (MTL) in SW Japan has a
long history of movement, having been active predominantly as a strike-slip fault since the …

We construct a 1-D steady state channel flow model for grain size evolution in the oceanic
upper mantle using a composite diffusion–dislocation creep rheology. Grain size evolution is …

The widely cited Sibson‐Scholz conceptual fault zone model suggests that seismically
active, upper crustal brittle faults pass downward across a predominantly thermally …

Similar foliation patterns are observed in faults in poorly lithified sediments, fault gouge and
cataclasite, and greenschist to granulite facies shear zones. We suggest that this similarity in …

Mineral fish are lozenge-shaped porphyroclasts, single crystals in a finer grained matrix,
which occur in ductile shear zones and which are commonly used as shear sense …

Studies on matrix-related pores from the nanometer to the micrometer scale in shales have
made considerable progress in recent decades. However, nanoscale pores and cracks …

This paper aims to demonstrate the potential role of micro/nanoscale investigations in the
study of fault rocks, given that a multiscale and multidisciplinary approach linking structural …

New and advanced methodologies have been developed to characterize the nano and
microstructure of cement paste and concrete exposed to aggressive environments. High …