Dear Colleagues,

 

I would like to draw your attention to the following AGU Fall Meeting 2018 session:

 

T054: Whose Fault Is It? Relating Structural and Compositional Heterogeneity to Slip Behavior

 

Large plate boundary fault systems are commonly rheologically segmented both along strike and down dip, including across the transition from seismic to aseismic shear displacement. In addition to thermal controls, these variations in slip style may arise due to geometric or compositional heterogeneities along the fault zone. Many questions remain on the relationships between structure and fault behavior. For example, how does rupture propagation interact with roughness or material properties along a fault at a range of slip rates? How does this impact the global variability in seismic behavior at plate boundaries? In this session, we will highlight recent advances in characterizing observed structures, geophysical properties, lithologies, and slip behaviors at plate boundary faults at a range of scales, with a focus on relationships between these features. We encourage submissions from seismology, magnetotellurics, geodesy, earthquake rupture modeling, structural geology, fault zone drilling, and experimental work.

 

The link to the session can be found here:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49102

 

Invited Speakers:

Thomas Gobel

TBA

 

Session Conveners:

Hannah Rabinowitz, Brown University

Helen Janiszewski, DTM

Samer Naif, LDEO

Ake Fagereng, Cardiff University

 

The deadline to submit abstracts is August 1, 2018.

 

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Dr Ake Fagereng Reader School of Earth and Ocean Sciences Cardiff University Main Building Cardiff CF10 3AT Phone: +44 (0)29 2087 0760 Email: [log in to unmask]

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