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Stability and Localization of Rapid Shear in Fluid-Saturated Fault Gouge: 1. Linearized Stability Analysis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Field observations of major earthquake fault zones show that shear deformation is often confined to principal slipping zones that may be of order 1–100 μm wide, located within a broader gouge layer of order 10–100 mm wide. ...
Deformation-Induced Melting in the Margins of the West Antarctic Ice Streams
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Flow of glacial ice in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet localizes in narrow bands of fast-flowing ice streams bordered by ridges of nearly stagnant ice, but our understanding of the physical processes that generate this ...
Stability and Localization of Rapid Shear in Fluid-Saturated Fault Gouge: 2. Localized Zone Width and Strength Evolution
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Field and laboratory observations indicate that at seismic slip rates most shearing is confined to a very narrow zone, just a few tens to hundreds of microns wide, and sometimes as small as a few microns. Rice et al. (2014) ...