In the failure of quasi-brittle materials such as rocks, microstuctural damage always
precedes macroscopic fracture and manifests itself in the formation of fracture process zones …

Although the widths of fault damage zones commonly show a positive correlation with
displacements, these relationships also show a somewhat scattered distribution. We believe …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Microfractures are small, high-aspect-ratio cracks in rock that result from application of
differential stresses. Although the term has been used to refer to larger features in the …

Scaling in fracture systems has become an active field of research in the last 25 years
motivated by practical applications in hazardous waste disposal, hydrocarbon reservoir …

The permeability structure of a fault zone in granitic rocks has been investigated by
laboratory testing of intact core samples from the unfaulted protolith and the two principal …

Damage surrounding the core of faults is represented by deformation on a range of scales
from microfracturing of the rock matrix to macroscopic fracture networks. The spatial …

Maximum displacement (D) and trace length (L) data for a population of 97 normal faults
from the Canyonlands Grabens region of SE Utah are presented. Values of L range from …

We present geological and morphological observations at different scales to constrain rates
of faulting and the distribution of deformation in the seismically active Aegean region. We …

Hydrothermal outflow occurs most commonly at the terminations of individual faults and
where multiple faults interact. These areas of fault propagation and interaction are sites of …