We investigate the feedbacks between surface processes and tectonics in an extensional setting by coupling a 2-D geodynamical model with a landscape evolution law. Focusing on the evolution of a single normal fault, we show that surface processes significantly enhance the amount of horizontal extension a fault can accommodate before being abandoned in favor of a new fault. In simulations with v...

In Summer 1998, a 400 km long seismic refraction profile (INDEPTH III) was shot in Central Tibet. Apart from recording the signals of 11 shots along the line, the stations also recorded a number of local earthquakes more or less in the extension of the line. Record sections and travel time data from both shots and earthquakes were compiled and interpreted jointly. The following peculiarities ar...

Introduction. The behavior of alluvial deposits this machine is illustrated in Figure 1. It subjected to fault movements in the underlying has been employed in a number of investigations to bedrock is of major concern for critical structures date, including piles (Scott eta!., 1977; Scott, located within fault zones. An understanding of 1979), ocean floor anchors (Tagaya et al., 1977), fault pr...