The width of fault zones in a brittle-viscous lithosphere: Strike-slip faults

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Jun 1991

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In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 554-555 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)

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Brittle Materials, Geological Faults, Lithosphere, Brittleness, Deformation, Ductility, Earth Movements, Substrates, Surface Layers, Viscous Flow

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A fault zone in an ideal brittle material overlying a very weak substrate could, in principle, consist of a single slip surface. Real fault zones have a finite width consisting of a number of nearly parallel slip surfaces on which deformation is distributed. The hypothesis that the finite width of fault zones reflects stresses due to quasistatic flow in the ductile substrate of a brittle surface layer is explored. Because of the simplicity of theory and observations, strike-slip faults are examined first, but the analysis can be extended to normal and thrust faulting.

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