a r t i c l e i n f o Recent high-resolution GPS and seismological data reveal that tectonic faults exhibit complex, multi-mode slip behavior including earthquakes, creep events, slow and silent earthquakes, low-frequency events and earthquake afterslip. The physical processes responsible for this range of behavior and the mechanisms that dictate fault slip rate or rupture propagation velocity ...

The recognition of linear trails fluid escape pipes that have been deformed by salt flow recently suggested to offer a novel approach reconstructing the internal kinematics thick sequences deforming under gravity. These constrain number key parameters for tectonic analysis including direction, translation distance top and overburden, profile from velocity, bulk viscosity salt. Here we interpret...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 20 September 2022Sec. Structural Geology and Tectonics Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1033217

1464-343X/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.07.003 * Tel.: +1 573 341 4100; fax: +1 573 341 6935. E-mail address: [email protected] Deformed conglomeratic clasts exposed along the Neoproterozoic Nakasib Suture and the Oko Shear Zone are used to calculate three-dimensional (3D) tectonic strain associated with the latter to quantify strain associated with post-a...

The transfer (accretion) of materials from a subducting oceanic plate to a subduction-accretionary complex has produced rock assemblages recording the history of the subducted oceanic plate from formation to arrival at the trench. These rock assemblages, comprising oceanic igneous rocks progressively overlain by pelagic sedimentary rocks (chert and/or limestone) and trench-fill clastic sediment...

Initially, the devastating Mw 7.0, 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake seemed to involve straightforward accommodation of oblique relative motion between the Caribbean and North American plates along the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone. Here, we combine seismological observations, geologic field data and space geodetic measurements to show that, instead, the rupture process involved slip on ...

The island of Cephalonia, Western Greece, was struck by two strong seismic events, with magnitudes, ML= 5.8 and ML = 5.7 which occurred on Jan. 26, 2014 and Feb. 3, 2014 respectively. The first event was located near Argostoli’s town, whereas the second one was located at the north part of Livadi village. These two strong earthquake events followed by smaller aftershocks provoking extensive cru...

Existing knowledge of the tracks left by sauropod dinosaurs (loosely 'brontosaurs') is essentially two-dimensional, derived mainly from footprints exposed on bedding planes, but examples in the Broome Sandstone (Early Cretaceous) of Western Australia provide a complementary three-dimensional picture showing the extent to which walking sauropods could deform the ground beneath their feet. The pa...