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Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting abstracts to the following session at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting: T050: The spatiotemporal evolution of structure and fault properties during the seismic cycle Session description: Geological faults are complex and heterogeneous structures with elastic and hydraulic properties that are interrelated and exhibit spatiotemporal variability. Structural and physical evolution of fault zones during the seismic cycle controls the mechanical response of the fault to changes in the stress conditions with implications for the likelihood of earthquake nucleation and the source properties of rupture. Characterization of the frictional/mechanical behaviour of faults, and their structural evolution in both space and time, is thus a prerequisite for understanding the processes of faulting and earthquake generation. We welcome contributions that investigate, i) mechanical, chemical and hydrological processes on seismic or aseismic faults, ii) feedbacks that arise between different fault zone processes during inter- and co-seismic periods, and, iii) the effects of structural heterogeneity on fault properties. Results from rock-deformation experiments, geological investigations of natural fault zones, earthquake seismology and numerical modelling are encouraged. Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/45562 Invited speakers: Marion Thomas (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) Frans Aben (University College London) Convenors: John Bedford (University of Liverpool) Marieke Rempe (University of Liverpool) Christopher Harbord (University of Durham) Kind regards, John, Marieke and Chris ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GEO-TECTONICS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GEO-TECTONICS&A=1