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1. Full Text Cataclastic faults along the SEMP fault system (Eastern Alps, Austria) — A contribution to fault zone evolution, internal structure and paleo-stresses
by Hausegger, Stefan and Kurz, Walter
Tectonophysics, ISSN 0040-1951, 11/2013, Volume 608, pp. 237 - 251
In this study three different sites along the ENE-trending, sinistral Salzach–Ennstal–Mariazell–Puchberg [SEMP] fault zone were investigated with respect to... 
Cataclasite | Northern Calcareous Alps | Brittle faults | Fault zone evolution | FLUID-FLOW | MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS | SHEAR ZONES | DETERMINING BRITTLE EXTENSION | CARBONATE ROCKS | TECTONIC EXTRUSION | GRANULAR-MATERIALS | DEFORMATION BANDS | Alps | Faults | Inventories | Stockpiling | Crops | Limestone | Evolution | Carbonates
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2. Full Text The effect of sub-seismic fault slip processes on the isotopic signature of clay minerals – Implications for K-Ar dating of fault zones
by Zwingmann, Horst and den Hartog, Sabine A.M and Todd, Andrew
Chemical Geology, ISSN 0009-2541, 06/2019, Volume 514, pp. 112 - 121
Clay minerals are abundant in fault gouges and isotope dating of the radiogenic noble gases that they contain may be used to constrain timing of fault... 
K-Ar dating | Timing of faulting | Frictional slip experiments | Clay-rich gouge | GOUGE | ARGON | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | EVOLUTION | TEMPERATURE | ILLITE | REACTIVATION | SHALLOW FAULTS | AGE CONSTRAINTS | BRITTLE FAULT | AR-40/AR-39 | Clay minerals | Seismology | Analysis
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3. Full Text Brittle faults are weak, yet the ductile middle crust is strong: Implications for lithospheric mechanics
by Behr, Whitney M and Platt, John P
Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, 11/2014, Volume 41, Issue 22, pp. 8067 - 8075
A global compilation of shear stress magnitude from mylonites developed along major fault zones suggests that maximum shear stresses between 80 and 120 MPa are... 
fault friction | mylonites | fault strength | lithospheric strength | crustal rheology | paleopiezometry | STRAIN-RATE | SAN-ANDREAS FAULT | SUBDUCTION ZONES | OUTER HEBRIDES | STRESS-FIELD | DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | ABSOLUTE FAULT | SCALE FAULT | RECRYSTALLIZED GRAIN-SIZE | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | Seismology | Plate tectonics | Lithosphere | Temperature | Shear | Fracture mechanics | Deformation | Slip | Boreholes | Fault location | Shear stresses | Bearing | Fault zones | Fault lines | Geological faults | Temperature effects | Sliding friction | Failure | Oceanic crust | Load bearing elements | Ductile-brittle transition | Brittleness | Estimates | Strike-slip faults | Faults | Friction | Continental crust | Shear stress | Mechanics | Rocks | Mechanical stimuli | Slumping | Thrust | Strength | Ductile brittle transition | Stresses | Seismic phenomena | Crusts
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4. Full Text Fault Initiation in Serpentinite
by Melosh, Benjamin L
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, ISSN 1525-2027, 06/2019, Volume 20, Issue 6, pp. 2626 - 2646
Serpentinite fault rheology is fundamental to tectonic and earthquake processes, yet links between deformation textures and strength evolution during fault... 
fault | brittle‐ductile textures | serpentinite | breccia | PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION | COAST RANGE OPHIOLITE | MANTLE WEDGE | SLIP | METAMORPHIC FLUIDS | brittle-ductile textures | FRICTIONAL-VISCOUS FLOW | SIMPLE SHEAR | DEFORMATION PROCESSES | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | CREEP | Viscosity | Size distribution | Stress analysis | Deformation | Creep | Seismic activity | Rheology | Surfaces | Rigidity | Dissolution | Precipitation processes | Strain | Fault lines | Serpentinite | Earthquakes | Anisotropy | Serpentinization | Relative abundance | Evolution | Numerical models
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5. Full Text Fault mirrors along carbonate faults: Formation and destruction during shear experiments
by Siman-Tov, Shalev and Aharonov, Einat and Boneh, Yuval and Reches, Ze'ev
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, ISSN 0012-821X, 11/2015, Volume 430, pp. 367 - 376
Glossy, light reflective surfaces are commonly exposed in carbonate fault-zones. It was suggested that such surfaces, recently termed Fault Mirrors (FMs), form... 
fault | mirror | shear | carbonate | nanograin | friction | Carbonate | Fault | Shear | Friction | Nanograin | Mirror | LUBRICATION | INTERMEDIATE-DEPTH EARTHQUAKES | INSTABILITY | MECHANISM | SLIP | STRENGTH | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | HIGH-VELOCITY | EVOLUTION | WEAR | Seismic waves | Carbonates | Ductile brittle transition | Geological faults | Destruction | Formations | Nanostructure | Brittleness
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6. Full Text Structural and temporal evolution of a reactivated brittle–ductile fault – Part II: Timing of fault initiation and reactivation by K–Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite
by Torgersen, E and Viola, G and Zwingmann, H and Harris, C
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, ISSN 0012-821X, 12/2014, Volume 407, pp. 221 - 233
Present-day exposures of ancient faults represent only the end result of the faults' often protracted and heterogeneous histories. Here we apply K–Ar dating of... 
brittle–ductile faulting | stable isotopes | mineral authigenesis | dolomite decarbonation | K–Ar dating | K-Ar dating | Brittle-ductile faulting | Dolomite decarbonation | Mineral authigenesis | Stable isotopes | KALAK NAPPE COMPLEX | DEFORMATION | ZIRCON AGES | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | FINNMARK | ILLITE | NORTHERN NORWAY | SHALLOW FAULTS | CONSTRAINTS | brittle-ductile faulting | NORWEGIAN CALEDONIDES | AR-40/AR-39 | Silicates | Carbonates | Architecture | Evolutionary biology | Mines and mineral resources | Analysis | Radioactive age determination | Faults | Muscovite | Evolution | Brittleness | Time measurements | Age | Mica
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7. Full Text Collective behavior of earthquakes and faults: Continuum-discrete transitions, progressive evolutionary changes, and different dynamic regimes
by Yehuda Ben-Zion
Reviews of Geophysics, ISSN 8755-1209, 12/2008, Volume 46, Issue 4, pp. RG4006 - n/a
Crustal deformation patterns are affected by multiscale granulation and healing processes associated with phase transitions between continuum and discrete... 
Seismology | Rheology and friction of fault zones | Earthquake dynamics | Tectonophysics | Nonlinear Geophysics | Dynamics and mechanics of faulting | Complex systems | Phase transitions | brittle deformation | complexity | dynamic regimes | continuum‐discrete transitions | mechanics of earthquakes and faults | evolutionary changes | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT | SAN-ANDREAS FAULT | STATE-DEPENDENT FRICTION | SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY | MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION | ACCELERATING MOMENT RELEASE | RENORMALIZATION-GROUP APPROACH | LONG VALLEY CALDERA | CRITICAL SLIP DISTANCE | INTEREVENT-TIME DISTRIBUTION
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